One Potato Review

Inspired, maybe a little bit crazy even, but eerily faithful to the unknowable (if sometimes intersecting) parabolas of sleeping and dreaming. This book starts out a with the usual lineup of bugaboos: nurses with needles, big, snarling dogs, butchers, pirates in wheelchairs, blind accordion players, the pope – wait, who are these guys? Victims of sleep – that’s who – as well as inhabiters of their own dreams. And maybe you’re their worst nightmare - who knows? Heine doesn’t – not exactly – but wow, is it fun to try and figure out. Something called “paradise” is nominally the destination here, this under the kindly supervision of someone called Sleep and his sister Dream. “If the world looks like a painted picture – then you’re in paradise,” suggests Heine, though some of that painting is presumably up to you.