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The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
4.0

This book is a magnificently poetic representation of ethereal events in a boy's life and how they impacted him at the time and into his adulthood.

How does MO do it? I actually felt the movement of the ship in his words. I felt the dark corners of the different areas of the ship; I felt personal connections with each character that the boy Michael befriended or feared or wondered at. I felt like a castaway on board, watching and simultaneously traveling along with these characters.

Instructions: Fill a bath with warm running words. Step in with your mind. Soak in the experience.