This was very much in a similar vein to Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain which I really enjoyed but I didn’t feel this one was nearly as good. Both books have a strong sense of the place they are set; both books have interesting characters and change narrator as they go along. I don’t mind that the story here was rather off the wall and loopy but it felt like the author had collected a random selection of ideas and squished them into one book. I raced through this but really it was because I wanted to put it down and be done with it.