Although I included a book by Tomasula in an earlier entry, I can't help but mention In & Oz, as well, which would probably be the one novel I would take with me if I was to be stranded on a deserted island. It's hard to describe this book, but I'll try. Like many stories by Gabriel García Márquez, José Saramago, or Hermann Hesse, In & Oz is an extended parable. It has a postmodernist feel while criticizing postmodernist society. The different aspects of this society are embodied by its main characters (Mechanic, Photographer, Composer, Designer, and Poet/Sculptor) and their interactions in the story. But there are other aspects to this book, aside from its narrative form and story content, that I just found - innovative, if I had to grasp for a word - that I can't do justice to with my own inadequate description. And Tomasula does this all in less than 150 pages.

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