About “The Familiar, Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May”
The Familiar is a 2015 novel by Mark Z. Danielewski that follows multiple characters across different locations, including Southeast Asia, Mexico, Venice, Italy, and Venice, California. The story includes a therapist-in-training, an East-L.A. gang member, two scientists in Marfa, Texas, a recovering addict in Singapore, and a programmer near Silicon Beach. At the center of the novel is a 12-year-old girl who sets out from Echo Park to get a dog but discovers something that changes her life and threatens the world. The book is described as a page-turner with a complex and diverse cast of characters.
Praise for “The Familiar, Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May”
“Thrilling and magnetic. . . . . The Familiar: Volume One is a boldly original, gorgeous, and suspenseful work of literature. . . . Thoroughly encoded with the language of our design-conscious, cinema-saturated, tech-centric era. We’re fluent in it because we’re living now.”
“As our society gets more technology-weary, it’s nice to see books like The Familiar: Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May break the mold and tell a story in a new and innovate way exclusive to physical pages between two covers.”
“[Danielewski is] the most aggressively avant-garde popular writer working today. . . . The Familiar: Volume 1 is as much a narrative story as it is an experiment in visual and typographical forms. . . . It all adds up to something between a graphic novel and a novel-novel.”
Book details
- First published
- 2015
- Latest edition
- 2015 · ISBN 9780375714955
- Pages
- 880
Frequently asked questions
How many pages is The Familiar, Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May?
The Familiar, Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May by Mark Z. Danielewski has 880 pages.
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