Multiple Choice

"Every author makes decisions while writing; every reader makes choices while interpreting. Usually you can ignore the rejected possibilities on either side. Not so with Multiple Choice. This haunting book-in-test-form demands that you carefully consider how things could be different. Cut this sentence, swap this word, ponder this explanation. Does that sound like a bloodless bit of formal experimentation? It’s not: This is a book about love, loss, guilt, empathy, inequality and life under Chile’s dictatorship. It’s a slim volume, but calls for lingering. It’s beautiful, fascinating, brilliant, brutal, all of the above."