One morning Matthue Roth was about to dive into a collection of Franz Kafka's writings when his two young daughters asked him to read them a story. They had a pile of children's books to choose from, but upon seeing the cartoonish Kafka cover (illustrated by comic artist Sammy Harkham), his kids had little interest in their age-appropriate choices. ¡ÈMy older daughter said, no, read us this,¡É Roth recalls. ¡ÈI said, fine, if you insist, and then I dove in without warning them.¡É What could have have been a source of nightmares for weeks turned out to be a total hit. Roth's daughters were mesmerized by Kafka's strange, macabre tales. So much so that it inspired Roth to write My First Kafka: Runaways, Rodents, and Giant Bugs, an illustrated, kid-friendly adaptation of three classic Kafka stories.

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