Helpful Score: 4
Sinisalo posits that trolls are actual creatures, just long unknown to science because of their shy and nocturnal habits. When our protagonist, a gay ad designer, finds a young troll being abused by a gang of teenagers, he takes the creature into his home. However, rather than calling animal control, or the usual authorities one might notify when one finds a rare and endangered animal, he develops a weird and even sexual obsession with the wild creature.
He finds himself going to odd lengths in his personal life using sex as a bartering tool, sabotaging relationships with friends and lovers all to care for and conceal the troll.
An ongoing literary parallel is made between this strange pairing and that of the teenage Filipina mail-order bride and her husband/captor who live in the apartment downstairs.
Although technically science-fiction (the occurrences in the novel do have scientific, technical explanations), this has been marketed as a mainstream book.
He finds himself going to odd lengths in his personal life using sex as a bartering tool, sabotaging relationships with friends and lovers all to care for and conceal the troll.
An ongoing literary parallel is made between this strange pairing and that of the teenage Filipina mail-order bride and her husband/captor who live in the apartment downstairs.
Although technically science-fiction (the occurrences in the novel do have scientific, technical explanations), this has been marketed as a mainstream book.
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