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Light Boxes by Shane Jones

Reading Shane Jones’ Light Boxes, a dreamlike war fable, reminded me of The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders, both books were small in size (under 20o pages) but big in scope. With both novels, I was so captivated by the prose and story that I read them in only one sitting.

In Light Boxes, it is always winter because a man named February deems it so. Revolutionary balloonists wearing bird masks take to the air to stop this evil tyrant. When February starts kidnapping the towns children, they start acting like its summer and strapping lightboxes to their heads, to simulate the sun.

It is very strange and some people might think it’s not for them. But everyone should read this book, because it’s fun, the writing is well done and you’ll be at the ground floor of this brilliant young writer. For on offbeat reading adventure, take a look at Light Boxes.

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