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A love letter to the bustling streets of Tokyo and the people living their lives in them, this book follows a stray cat as it carelessly wanders around the city. Through a beautiful chain of interlinked stories, the cat's randomly chosen route allows the reader to connect the dots.

There's murder. There's poetry. Mixed media such as manga drawings and photographs. There's madness and sanity, broken relationships, lost love and people resurfacing and finding forgiveness after years of trying.

Oh, and there's robots too � though not in the way, one would expect.

In the opening story a tattoist gets commisioned to tattoo a map of the entire city on his client's back. He loses himself completely in the task, marveling at the interconnected web of street names and crossroads, buildings and trees. In the end, he loses his mind over the task, the jarring complexity of the city; like a puzzle that he will never finish. Reading this book had a similar effect. Though it's a hopeful and beautiful experience.