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A BARNES AND NOBLE BEST BOOK OF 2025
“Uketsu's strange riddles are chilling and addictive – I couldn't put it down.” —R. F. Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface
“Delightfully macabre and fiendishly clever. Seemingly unconnected stories tie themselves into a complicated knot, which Uketsu…
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Strange Pictures by Uketsu
Strange Pictures immediately grabbed my attention because it started with a projective personality test that I learned about in a workshop given by a forensic psychologist. I was hooked by the House-Person-Tree image and gave this unknown (to me) author a shot. The stories in this book appear separate, but they're all connected, and each includes a drawing that help you solve the puzzle. Even though I didn't always see eye to eye with the character’s reasoning, I found this book to be clever, unique, intriguing and different than any of the books I’ve recently read.…
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