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Eggers, Dave

The Eyes and the Impossible

256 pp. | Knopf | May, 2023 | Trade ISBN 9781524764203 $19.99 | Ebook ISBN 9781524764227 $10.99
(3) 4-6 Illustrated by Shawn Harris. Canine narrator Johannes lives wild in a park and serves as the Eyes, appointed by the penned-up Bison to report what he sees. The arrival of "rectangles full of nonsense" sets off a chain of events leading to collective animal scheming and to several worldview-expanding revelations for Johannes about his own origins and what's out there beyond the park. This introspective adventure holds the appeal of a new perspective on the familiar world as readers piece together the bigger picture of what Johannes observes. His narration, though confident on some matters, allows them to pick up on hints that he might not know as much as they do (have the Bison really ruled the park for "millions of years or more?") and then to watch him grow as he learns. Interspersed full-bleed spreads insert Johannes into existing landscape paintings, underscoring the idea that art changes his view of how he fits into the world.
Reviewer: Shoshana Flax

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