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The familiar. Volume 1. One rainy day in May / Mark Z. Danielewski.

ISBN: 9780375714948 (softcover : acid-free paper)
Physical Description: 839 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm
Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, 2015.
Copyright: &copy;2015

Summary:

From the universally acclaimed, genre-busting author of House of Leaves comes a new book as dazzling as it is riveting...A page-turner from start to finish, ranging from Southeast Asia to Mexico to Venice, Italy, and Venice, California, with characters as diverse as a therapist-in-training whose daughters prove far more complex than her patients, an ambitious East-L.A. gang member hired for violence, two scientists on the run in Marfa, Texas, a recovering addict in Singapore summoned by a powerful but desperate billionaire, a programmer near Silicon Beach whose game engine just might augur far more than he suspects, and at the very heart a 12-year-old girl who one rainy day in May sets out from Echo Park to get a dog only to find something else...something that will not only alter her life but threaten the world we all think we know and the future we take for granted.