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People throw around the "U" word in reviews all the time. Unique. But I can without a doubt confidently say that The Evidence of Things Not Seen earns every bit of the word Unique. Evidence of Things Not Seen centers around a very bright, socially awkward teen that disappears in a small town. We never actually get to meet the teen- Tommy, but the whole book is told about people that either find things of his or knew him in some way. Some of the chapters connected easily to him and his disappearance, while others are more glimpses into others lives and have a looser connection and are more philosophical in nature.

Some of the chapters felt like a stream of conscious narrative. The parts where they were talking to the police and you only got their side of the conversation. I also really enjoyed the excerpts from Tommy's journal in between each chapter. It left everything very open to what really happened to Tommy. There are endless possibilities, which is really what the book is about. Or one of the things anyway. On a side note, I feel like Tommy would be a kid in the candy story if he world jumped into Josephine Angelini's Trial by Fire, which also experiments with the concept of infinite possibilities and different worlds and traveling through time and space.

A few of the chapters felt a little unnecessary to me, but the overall feel of the book was very cool. I have never read anything quite like it. It was both beautiful and heartbreaking to see the whole town's different connections to Tommy. Evidence of Things Not Seen is a book that will make you stop and think. The ending doesn't leave you with any hard answers, but it does leave you with various questions to ponder, which really is the whole point of the book. Evidence of Things Not Seen is a moving, though provoking and dare I say it- Unique book.

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