About “The Familiar, Volume 4”
When a viral video puts twelve-year-old Xanther under a spotlight of scrutiny at school, her little white cat--still slumbering, still unnamed--offers the only escape, though it comes at a price. Not even Xanther's parents can deny the strange currents now shuddering around their eldest, touching off inexplicable happenings. Entities troubling the dreams of the twins seem to have singled out Freya. Despite invitations to a gala at The Met, Anwar fears the solution to their financial difficulties might expose more than just his family to dangerous consequences. Something greater is at hand, something terrible is at stake. And all the while, faces unfamiliar to the Ibrahims draw closer and closer: Jingjing, in Singapore, clutching charms, boards a plane for Los Angeles; Cas and Bobby, with visions of Xanther in Mefisto's Orb, must elude attacks from the sky. Strangers collide . . . though will those intersections lead to alliances or war? And does the dance at the center of Volume 4 augur the liberation of our better angels or the release of a creature set to feast on the wings of hope? (Description courtesy of Penguin Random House.)
Praise for “The Familiar, Volume 4”
“The series at times recalls Ulysses, Infinite Jest, and Cloud Atlas in its complexity, structure, and echoing parallel narratives. . . . The literary world is stronger for having boundary pushers like Danielewski.”
“So perfectly relatable, so beautifully rendered. . . . So, so worth it in the way that reading [The Familiar] rewires your brain.”
“Graphic design works in tandem with storytelling in this fascinating, ongoing, humongous experiment with form and the experience of reading.”
Book details
- First published
- 2017
- Latest edition
- 2017 · ISBN 9780375715006
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