A review by leelee_draws_pictures
Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer

3.0

This book is another book with words literally die-cut out of it to create a narrative. The pages must be handled carefully to ensure that nothing rips. The narrative that's been created here seems to be -- although I'm not sure, because bits of it were hard to follow -- the story of a man, torn apart by depression, as told through his child's eyes. The depression seems to tear across the physical landscape: the houses are described as sinking, and the petals fall from the floral wallpaper. The story seems to go in another direction after the first half, something about an apocalypse that the father averts with his own mind (?), but somehow that's all right. I really enjoyed Foer's ability to create a new, mostly cohesive story from another, and the beautiful imagery contained therein.