A review by jenikki
The Cabinet by Un-su Kim

4.0

The Cabinet by Un-Su Kim. What a weird and wonderful book. One of my favourite TV shows of the last 10 years is “Severance,” on AppleTV, which feels like it ended on a cliffhanger about eleventy-thousand years ago but only just announced season 2 is coming later this year (YES) so when I read about this book—about a man working in a boring office building who is suddenly put in charge of investigating the contents of Cabinet 13, filled with files of people who possess strange, weird, and glorious abilities—I bought it immediately. He meets up with people who time travel—unexpectedly, and sometimes for only a few minutes—or who can grow trees out of their fingers, and many other “symptomers” (all the while dealing with the guy who phones constantly BEGGING to be turned into a cat), all in the name of trying to determine if humans are starting to evolve into a different species. Along the way the narrator talks about the limitations human beings have on a planet that is increasingly getting warmer, or more stressful, of the ways in which the human race is starting to crumble, and how there may be hope if only we could evolve into higher life forms. This was such a wild and weird ride, and was REALLY funny in parts. Loved it.