The characters that populate Yoko Tawada’s Suggested in the Stars are out of step with one another, but cross paths, time, and space all with what can only be described through Hamlet’s words, words, words. Tawada returns to the characters from Scattered all over the Earth and their search for Hiruko’s homeland, Susanoo’s language, and the connection between them born of globalization and  climate change. Full of light climate dystopia, this book turns your brain around through Tawada’s (and her translator Margaret Mitsutani’s) deft use of language. I am already greatly anticipating the third installment in this trilogy in 2025. I need more of this weird little series, but also don’t want it to end!