Book Review: The Procession of Mollusks

The Procession of Mollusks by Eric E. Olson

My review

rating: 4 of 5 stars
A Pacific Northwest, coastal town is seized by its passion for the phylum Mollusca as seen through the varying lucid eyes of an ex-reporter who believes he’s a reporter and a young boy coming-of-age in a docuphile society. Olson created a neapolitan tale; weaving magical realist happenings, noir scenes of a Lynchian motif, and science lessons had Timothy Leary teamed up with National Geographic.



I’m not ashamed to admit that this book gave me nightmares. Or feral dreams, rather. Olson convincingly sculpted a spiral illustration while tweaking the nerves that lead to those primal places once suppressed after agriculture and architecture were born. Stirring these neglected tidepools, left behind puddles teaming with its own isolated eco-system, disturbs some of the more unexpected imaginables. Olson explored this sticky territory and had the brass to record a map for others to find their way in and back out again.




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