One does not read Samedi the Deafness. One wanders through a hall of mirrors and falls through the widening cracks. One stumbles through mental fog only to find a tea party of hares and hatters. Jesse Ball's debut novel, Samedi the Deafness, is a fractal jaunt through fancy and reality, a story that finds its own crookedly beautiful style and drags the reader into its ludicrous world.
