“This is the literary equivalent to slow food. A glimpse into the notebooks, observations and reflections of 12-year-old Spivet, whose passion is cartography, that is, the mapping of more or less everything in his experience, from his sister shucking corn on the back porch to the bullet that kills his brother, and even the well-imagined future possibilty of lethally toxic flooding in his neighboring community of Butte, Montana. His zeal for the ordering of his reality into some semblance of predictability is countered by his understanding of the fragility of that order. An impulsive decision to hop a freight train headed East expands his understanding in very unexpected ways. Beautiful prose leavened by zany illustrations invite us to savor every page.”—Donna, Village Books, Bellingham
Face Out
The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
May 7, 2011
