Kappa Rest and Reset from her peripatetic childhood in

from her peripatetic childhood in the Canadian far north

Thoughtfully crafted

Who will I meet at the playground

The Chess Set is illustrated by Christoph Niemann

Kappa Rest and Reset from her peripatetic childhood inA lone mountain hiker falls through a hole in the ground into Kappaland, inhabited by creatures that are half tiger, half turtle. Here, children choose whether to be born, unemployed workers are turned into sandwich meat, and human artists are enshrined as saints. Despite the Kappas strange and often gruesome ways, its a return to the world above that drives the narrator to madness in Akutagawas only novel. Written as Japan entered an era of