A review by curlymango
The Book of Kane and Margaret by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi

4.5

Wow what a strange, dizzying, mesmerizing book. I went in under the impression that it’s a novel, then while reading thought of it as a collection of shorts, but now at the end I don’t even know what to call it. I was on a rollercoaster ride of emotions; a longer chapter would have me chuckling to myself and nearly forgetting about the book’s setting, and then an unsuspecting 2-page chapter would cut me down from that high into a pit of despair. By the last chapter I was almost welling up. (Who would’ve thought such a beautiful love story could be so short and also between a roly poly and the moon? Or really, between everything and everyone?) Like walking through someone else’s dreams.