August 7, 2020


“Hardbound with a black jacket covered by fuschia flowers, by all exterior appearances it looks like any other volume. However, inside the covers is a wooden reading frame, and nestled within that reside 69 unnumbered pages, with text facing up and down. In an email, Meserko said that this setup gives readers the freedom to choose their own adventure: Pages can be mixed and turned as you want, and each time I give a copy of my book to a reader, I mix up the order of the pages, making that copy totally unique from others.” (Only 150 exist in print.) He also calculated that the book has infinite different combinations, and that each permutation yields a coherent text.The general storyline follows a man and his thoughts on village life and those around him, and the particulars change depending on how the book is read.

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