A letter to Kazuo Ishiguro · Never Let Me Go

What We Were Made For

On a childhood that is also a countdown, and the unbearable tenderness of characters who never quite let themselves know what they are.

Cover of Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.
Never Let Me Go · Kazuo Ishiguro

Working draft — title, framing, and cover are in place; S.E. will write the essay.

Ishiguro tells you the worst of it almost in passing, and trusts you to keep loving these children anyway. The horror is not the fate; it is the ordinariness of growing up inside it.

This is a placeholder essay so the page reads like the real thing — the novel, the cover, and the shape of the argument are here; S.E. will write the words that go in this space.

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