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Light Boxes is a mesmerizing parable about a village fighting the continuing onslaught of an everlasting winter instigated by February. The story centers on the family of Thaddeus, whose young daughter Bianca is taken, early in the book, by February. Thaddeus leads the resistance against February, helped by a cast of original yet recognizable characters. Bianca, in the mean time, witnesses the innocent ignorance and confused anger of February.
Jones weaves you into a paralel universe that perhaps is not so different from ours. The book is written in a sparse style bordering on the poetic. Jones also plays with the visual presentation of the page, emphasizing emotion with font size and isolation of words.
This book will help you Northern Hemispherians through winter and us Southern Hemispherians should read it so we appreciate summer even more. The book was originally self-published with a print of only 500 copies but has now been picked up by Penguin, selling thousands. In the top 5 of the best books I've read in 2010.
Let me know what you think of it.
Joran C.A. Monteiro © 2010
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