Jeff VanderMeer has an interview with Shaun Tan up on a new blog at Amazon. It contains some interesting material about how The Arrival was developed (and why it took over four years to finish). Jeff says that The Arrival is his favorite book of the year. Obviously it is very different from a conventional novel, which makes it difficult to compare, but I think I’m with Jeff on this one. If there is one book you buy this year, make it The Arrival.