The Book of Kane and Margaret

“Araki-Kawaguchi’s inventive, surreal novel in stories (after Disintegration Made Plain and Easy) follows a group of characters who leave the bounds of a WWII-era Japanese internment camp through magic and mischief. . . . This beautifully rendered reflection on a dark moment of American history will appeal to fans of literary speculative fiction.”
—Publishers Weekly

“Araki-Kawaguchi’s The Book of Kane and Margaret is an important book and a brilliant one. Surreal, moving, and beautifully written. One of my favorite reads of this or any year.”
—Jeff VanderMeer, author of Annihilation
 
“A wondrous trance—one of those novels that defies the rules to make its own indelible order. Araki-Kawaguchi’s debut is a virtuosic performance of sentences and empathy. Fable, history, slapstick, and a riotous lament—The Book of Kane and Margaret contains it all.”
—Salvador Plascencia, author of The People of Paper


 

“A dazzling debut from an important new writer. Highly imaginative, bittersweet, astonishing, playful and yet also poignant.”
—Ann VanderMeer, editor of The Big Book of Classic Fantasy
 
“The Book of Kane and Margaret is ravaging—a magical tale of a family shaped by internment , a necessary document of human and narrative inventiveness—an abundance of astonishments, harrowing, coy, joyful, audacious, wise, loving, true. It’s not just a great debut, it’s a great book.”
—Lucy Corin, author of The Swank Hotel