Slaughterhouse-Five
By Kurt Vonnegut
This novel by Kurt Vonnegut can't really be put into one specific genre. The protagonist, Billy, was a soldier in WWII and the novel is about his belief of the aliens of Tralfamadore, who are like Hindu philosophers in that they see time as a fourth dimension- all that is, was, and will be is their reality. As a result, the book jumps around in Billy's life and the horrors that he endured. Every time someone dies- regardless of the manner- Billy's reaction is "so it goes." He may seem to suffer from schizophrenia, but his strange behavior is better diagnosed as post-traumatic stress disorder (I wrote a literature criticism on Billy's psychological health as my final exam for AP English Literature and Composition last year; if you would like to read it, please contact me). The government offers him no support for dealing with his illness, and he spends his life accepting mediocre things (he married his wife because, essentially, she was there).
So it goes.
So it goes.