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NEW SWEDISH BOOKS This house is full of dead peop
le like all houses But they can only be seen in daylight and from the side When the sun warms their bones. Kristoffer Leandoer, The Way to the Big Maybe (Pequod Press) Excerpt from the series ‘Ever More Cunning Cats’ The Way to the Big Maybe Kristoffer Leandoer THE WAY TO THE BIG MAYBE Pequod Press Rights: Pequod Press Kristoffer Leandoer is a simultaneously playful and deeply serious author. As a versatile poet, fiction author and essayist, he moves with ease between jokes and earnestness, joy and sorrow. In The Way to the Big Maybe, poetry and prose are blended in deeply personal pieces. Kristoffer Leandoer does something that appears straightforward, but is actually gripping and important. 30 The book is formed into a beautiful tale of life’s brevity, of longing for those who are lost, the void they leave behind them, and the voids in ourselves, the ones we try to fill by thinking of other things and stubbornly holding on to what we perceive as reality. A book of sorrow for all that is lost and the time we invest in trying to re-establish a meaningful existence.