I read Arcadia in paper format, forwards from page one, so I can’t verify the truth of this statement ( Pears explains in this interesting Q&A, how the book format is but a single narrative route through his creation), but I can confirm that story does fold back over on itself. So it is with Arcadia, a novel, if its app is to believed, that has chapters which can be read in any order.
I don’t like structure to overshadow the substance of a novel, but I do find quirky or unusual constructions very appealing. I’ve, realised through writing these Literary SFF posts, that a novel’s structure is very important to me. Iain Pear’s Arcadia is a piece of precision literary engineering.
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