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Reviewed by Asher Syed for Readers' Favorite
In Curiosity and I: Let Curiosity Guide You by O'Nell Agossa, a man begins each morning beneath a tree in a city park, where meditation opens the way into an inner realm shaped by memory, fear, and unfinished grief. There he is met by Curiosity, a golden-eyed cat who guides him through the defining events of his life, beginning with his childhood in Benin, his family’s move to Canada, the lasting effect of his mother’s near-fatal fire accident, and the heartbreak that followed his first serious relationship with Faye. As he moves farther into this interior world, each place he enters forces him to face an earlier version of himself that still carries the pain he never fully confronted. What begins as a meditation ritual gradually becomes a search for the part of himself he left behind.
O'Nell Agossa’s Curiosity and I is a supremely unique book that whips a story up out of genuinely deep philosophy, and readers along for the ride can absorb the journey and all the wisdom that comes with it. I love Agossa's ability to place tenderness beside unease. There's an airplane conversation with the older married man that offers humane wisdom after romantic heartbreak, and a cottage that turns a simple resting place into a meditation on belonging and love. Curiosity, the striped cat who serves as guide, questioner, and mirror to the narrator’s inward life, is brilliant, organically asking the question that opens the next stage of understanding. The landscapes are pure cinema, from an immense cemetery with rows of tombstones to a storm-torn sea with a fragile glass rowboat. Readers who enjoy introspective literary writing and philosophical storytelling will adore this book. Very highly recommended.
