The Eye of the Sheep will break your heart – a small price to pay to hear Jimmy’s story. This is a story about how to find your place in the world and how to accept what you have been given. This book should be impossibly bleak, but Laguna has managed to imbue it with luminosity. Equally distressing and uplifting, every moment of pain is juxtaposed with the light we see in the central figure of Jimmy. Sofie Lagunas The Eye of the Sheep (2014) and Jamaica Kincaids Annie John (1985), are domestic fiction novels of the bildungsroman form, in which both. Published in 2015 by Allen & Unwin Condition: Very Good, with some light marks on the bottom edge, and light overall wear. Sofie Laguna tackles the intricacies of love and marriage, brotherhood, power dynamics, medical issues and the definition of family – her novel is a mixture of the brutality found in Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones and the pain in John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars. It works as a reminder that having a child with special needs is not an impossible task it is a challenge that runs alongside complexities faced by many families. Sofie Lagunas second novel for adults, The Eye of the Sheep, was longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, shortlisted for the Stella. The Eye of the Sheep follows Jimmy’s journey as he tries to understand himself and the world around him. He loves so deeply that the cells in his body spin uncontrollably. He becomes manic when the lawnmower is being used and is anxious about his dad ‘hitting the hard stuff’.
He worries about her weight, and obsesses over the mechanisms of the tumble dryer and about his relationship with his brother. At age six, he reads instruction manuals to his mother. Where we see our parents, friends or siblings, he sees internal organs and blood rushing through their veins.
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