The Future of Giraffes: Five Mininovels (The Placebo Effect Trilogy #2)

Synopsis of the Novel, The Future of Giraffes: Five Mininovels (The Placebo Effect Trilogy #2) The Future of Giraffes is the second installment to Yuriy Tarnawsky's Placebo Effects Trilogy, devoted to the topic of childhood. All five mininovels use negative text-gaps of vital information, forcing the reader to become the book's co-author and fill in the gaps with personal experience. The stories center around topics of alienation, abandonment, and fear of death, exploring themes developed in the first book, Like Blood in Water. In The Future of Giraffes, a boy takes a nap during a family picnic and awakens to find himself all alone in the world. A cognitively impaired savant boy decides he has had enough of living and trudges off to his grave. A young boy is forced to leave his hometown of Blood City in search of one like Menton after his mother's funeral. Another boy is kept imprisoned in a quarry, subjected to a barbarous experiment of survival. Lastly, a boy dreams of transforming i