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Jan 25, 2018SCL_Justin rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I love A.S. King's work when it's weird, and I Crawl Through It is a weird one. One of the characters writes poems and has swallowed herself, while another is building a helicopter that can only be seen on certain days of the week by certain people. It works best to relax into the oddness and not forcibly analyze the metaphors too much, which I think would deflate the whole thing. Trying to figure out what is "really" happening instead of the things that are written as happening seems like missing the point of the book. It's fiction and gets to do this kind of thing, and I loved it very much.