The Factory

If I had had the time, I would have finished it in one sitting. The author doesn’t hold your hand to help you understand the slightly unconventional structure of the story but instead allows you to wander and explore the factory as if you were in it. Fantastic read!

Like the other works of hers that I've read, The Hole and Weasels in the Attic, Oyamada begins by easing readers into the situations of her characters. Before long, though, their worlds begin to unravel. Following four characters in their strange occupations on the enormous campus of an unnamed factory, Oyamada builds suspense as questions about the factory mount and the surreal becomes more and more real.