The pain of leaving your home and living among strangers is something that most people have experienced once in their lives, whether it be moving as a kid because your parents moved, or because as an adult you need to move due to whatever reasons. This one is however not about that. It about returning home after too much time away, so that home seems strange now. You know how things are, everything is familier, yet everything is strange, you are not used to it anymore. You need to refamiliarise yourself, rediscover yourself as a part of this situation, its culture, its community, its weirdnesses.
The protagonist makes this journey of rediscovering his self, as he returns home after having spent a large part of his childhood abroad. He has never felt acclimatised to his situation while living abroad, yet he feels like a stranger in what he thought was home.
This great novel struck real close to home for me, and was definately a very good read. A very big thanks to the author.