Tadeo's Search for Circles

When I saw the title I was hoping this book would be more about math. Tadeo's search for the perfect circle was kind of baffling to me because I assumed by “perfect” he meant “perfectly round” but actually he was just talking about human connection. Tadeo travels around the world with his rope, seeing circles he thinks might be perfect but actually aren't...but he never actually says what makes them less than perfect and it's unclear why his mom's hug is the perfect circle other than just being a nice thing to have after exploring the world and not seeing her for a while. It's a nice tale of a kid going off on a magically real/imagined adventure and being happy to come home at the end of the night, but it being couched in terms of perfect circles kind of threw me. The narrative was kind of clunky for me.