🌟 Winner of the Booker Prize

Woke up to this news on my phone, so jumped into The End of Everything audiobook this morning.

5 stars 🌟

It's a great dystopian tale about a journey through a "supposedly alien invasion (they don't even care about humans, it seems, or maybe we did this to ourselves. Most likely.) Focusing on a 70-year-old who's confused and suffering from the age-related ills and memory loss that come with living a full life. (A part that would have been greatly performed by Maggie Smith in a movie.)

My favorite things about it: the open ending, and the fact that Marnie is the most resilient one.

I love an abrupt ending. There are no happy endings in real life, only now, the events, and what comes after. Which goes very against the "saudosismo" of my people who mostly live in the distorted myth of how great the past was.

The novel builds the stage for our imagination, and we don't have to work that hard to feel the bleakness. It already feels real and today.

Marnie, living as a brain-fog person who doesn't get put down by guilt, lives in a suspended present of now mixed with the knowledge accumulated, but mostly in the now.

P.s. it kinda gave me hope. I am her... a deambular sozinha pelo mundo que não faz mais sentido, a viver o agora sem esperança mas resiliente.