BOOK REVIEW: A ridiculous book to make sense of a horrible world

Aditi Mali's 'The Complete Shampoo and Daddy' has just had it with the world. It, therefore, takes from it only what it must.

At around page 81 of Aditi Mali’s The Complete Shampoo and Daddy, the rabbit Shampoo discovers that they are a pyromaniac. Five chunky panels later, Shampoo has burnt the corner of the page off. The top right of page 83 is jagged and soot-blackened – slightly better off than the edges of page 85, which are completely ‘burnt’ off because Shampoo has by now passed on their pyromania to their friend, the pig called Daddy.