This book is a strange little collection of artwork by the author’s brother a practicing tattoo artist and captions and sparse narrative by the author, coupled with additional quotes and passages from other texts. One thing I learned from this whole experience is that Sofia Samatar works at James Madison University, where I went to school, and so I went on a journey back through my department’s old website and seeing who’s still around. None of that has anything to do with the book. The […]