Ishiguro is most definitely not for everyone, but his stories are so critically acclaimed that it attracts a lot of attention.

I’ll never sit and be that pretentious person who says that someone doesn’t “get” someone’s art or writing if they dislike it, but it seems like people are met with the dissonance of what KI’s writing is vs what they imagined it would be once they consume his work.

There are a ton of people who hear about “the secret” of Never Let Me Go and are dissatisfied when they read a story about human love, loss, and identity because they expected something much more graphic and dark.

Slightly left: Anything by Colleen Hoover or Rupi Kuar

Extreme left: Hogg by Samuel Delany

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Blood Meridian & The Road by Cormac McCarthy