Everyone is careful not to disturb the body’s composure. Gert-Jan instructs the partygoers to step over it as they ferry rounds of drinks from the kitchen to the den. There’s horror, suspense, violence, adventure, mystery, a touch of Lord of the Flies, a very theatric approach to bodies and rituals, escape, and everything in between. In that regard, Mira Corpora defies classification and becomes a powerful amalgamation of the best element of a plethora of genres. Perhaps the best thing about this novel is the shifting nature of the story itself.
However, maximum enjoyment is probably found somewhere in the middle by doing a reading that both revels in Jackson’s superb storytelling skills and delves into the significance of major events without attempting a full analysis that could intellectualize the passages that can cut to the reader’s marrow. Mira Corpora is the kind of novel that’s at once easily digestible due to the author’s straightforward prose and incredibly dense because it invites the reader to deconstruct the very personal experiences presented in order to fully understand them. Even my cassettes begin to bloat with water and breed black spores. Little mossy growths start to infest the scraggly hairs of my armpits. The ghostly skin becomes so soft that I can scrape off ribbons of white flesh with my fingernail. The soles of my feet are perpetually soggy. I help the kids with chores around the camp. “For the first week I’m there, it rains constantly. The result is a story that’s gripping, candid, and astonishingly raw: Jackson, who is an accomplished playwright, writes with a bizarre mixture of honesty and a knack for the fantastic that, besides forcefully keeping the reader’s eye on the page, makes the narrative hover above the dividing line between commonplace viciousness and otherworldly experiences. The narrative follows Jeff as he joins a colony of outcast children who live in the woods and believe in teenage oracles, gets handed a mysterious cassette tapes that leads him and a band of ragtag misfits on wild chase for a reclusive underground rockstar who may or may not be alive, and eventually finds himself out of the woods but in place that makes the brutality of the life he lead back home look like a sweet dream.Īt once a thinly veiled autobiography, an exploration of youth and all its pain, weirdness, and resilience, and a superb adventure that shows how a boy can survive almost everything in order to become a fractured man (but a man nonetheless), Mira Corpora is an outstanding narrative delivered with the kind of feverish prose than demands attention and with enough power to make it memorable. Mira Corpora charts the journey of a young man named Jeff who runs away from home in order to escape violence and bleakness.
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