It’s about the life of a child living under military secrecy, with the strange allies and lifestyle. Then, when he grows older, he turns back to study the military secrets that caused the change in his life.
The work is a lot like Slaughterhouse V, but without aliens and time travel and a lot more dreamy. It comes off very dry and thoughtful. I wouldn’t recommend it to myself, but it wasn’t half bad and there’s definitely an audience for this kind of book. Just not me.
The lesson I drew from the book is: You can’t bring back the past. The main character spends much of his life trying to figure out the military secrets of his family and his childhood and tries to reconnect with the characters of his youth, but time has not been kind. Eventually, he moves on, having learned everything he could.