Peaces

This is maybe the weirdest book I’ll read all year — in the best way possible. Peaces is the story of Otto and Xavier, a couple who are gifted a honeymoon (though they didn’t technically get married) on a mysterious former tea-smuggling train by Xavier’s aunt. They go with their pet mongoose, Árápad, and are soon trying to figure out what is happening on the train. It’s a well-plotted, deliciously weird story that almost reads like a horror book at points — why is there furniture on the ceiling of the train? Who is Ava Kapoor, the woman who lives on the train? Were are they going? Who is a man named Přemysl, and what does he have to do with all of them? — and I couldn’t get enough. Also, I just loved this line from the description: “Peaces is about what it means to be seen by another person — whether it’s your lover or a stranger on a train — and what happens when things you thought were firmly in the past turn out to be right beside you.” I mean!!!!