Kwan Ann Tan is the author of the interactive story The Waiter, out this week from Union Square & Co. Below, she recommends three more interactive novels.
An interactive story or a novel with an unusual structure is a difficult and unwieldy thing to pull off. But when it’s done well, you come away feeling like you’ve experienced something unusual, or the way that you see the text has changed.
Here are three books that invite you to interact with the text as a physical object to reframe the narrative, or piece together the full picture yourself through their unconventional structures.
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