Michael is four years old, and today he is a bird.

At least, that’s what he tells his parents. Tomorrow he might be a spider, or a squirrel, or a polar bear. Each day, a new animal — and each animal, a new fear to overcome.

Michael's world is a shifting one: part play, part anxiety, part something stranger. On his first day at school, a mooing sound comes to him. Something is calling from the woods. Something wants to be found.

Nausea is a darkly surreal comic novella about childhood, grief, and the way children mythologize what they cannot bear. Told entirely in the voice of a young boy, it balances absurdity and heartbreak in a world where animal instincts might be the only way to survive.

For fans of hallucinatory fiction, weird childhoods, and dark fables with unexpected tenderness.