It's striking, how the characterization is so indirect, and yet so positive. Are the characters described anywhere? Not much, but they seem real . . .
The richness of the descriptive language is amazing. Stuff like,
It's all closer to poetry than prose.She offers me a banana. It tastes of moonlight and the first word spoken by the first human millions of years ago and the rain that will fall next week.
Very strange. Very pretty.