Kafka’s The Trial, if Kafka was having an acid trip at the time. Sterling is arrested despite their innocence and their world increasingly becomes more surreal and unhinged with bullfighters, spaceships and time travel via google streetview. Underpinning it, however, is a commentary on state-sanctioned violence against migrants, minorities and queer working-class people. I’d love to write more but, every time I try, my recollections seem even more unhinged than the book. It’s certainly a mood.