Starting off with reading the first page of the book it gets you interested because it starts with a phone conversation. It is a great lead to make me want to continue reading to see why or who is calling the character. They begin to talk about names which is kind of funny but it makes the main character remember things about his name, and about other peoples names. He says "my own name was problematic" he starts remembering times where he thought his own mother couldn't remember what his name was, she remember all her other children's names but not his and he would always call him in last. Does this have anything to do with what his childhood was like? Maybe he thought he was neglected and thought his mother liked his brothers and sisters better then she liked him.
After the name thing fades away it just starts off into another story, so far I think it is a little confusing because you don't really know anything about what the book is going to be about, but maybe thats why the title is "Maps To Anywhere" because it is going to be all over the place. There may be just a bunch of little stories in one big story, and it can go anywhere and tell a story about anything.
There are different titles for the different stories in this one big story. I read the "Heralds" which refers to religion, and "The Miracle Chicken" which was very interesting and it made me wonder about the whole story. Each little part in the book I think is a little clip of someones real life. It makes you want to know what the next story is going to be but you don't really have an idea of the persons whole life or who the people are in the story. They don't really have any description of people there is only description of things that have happened. It is kind of like a friend telling you each of theses stories about there life. I don't really know what to think so far, I would like to keep reading so hopefully I get a better understanding of why the book was made and what it is trying to say.
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