I refrain from a star rating until I have thought about this more.

I didn't particularly enjoy the experience of reading this. I don't know what I am supposed to think or feel. The conclusion was unsatisfying. I asked a lot of interesting questions about humanity, intelligence, communication, and relationship. The answers I came up with seem to be largely the product of my own preconceptions and not shaped very much by the story, which probably means that either it was ineffectively written or I refused to accept its conclusions. I don't know which it was.

This reminded me, in an odd way, both of McKinley's Sunshine and Alexander's Unsong.