{"product_id":"the-familiar-volume-1-isbn-9780375714948","title":"The Familiar, Volume 1","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BEST SELLER  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Familiar Volume 1\u003c\/i\u003e Wherein the cat is found . . . \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the author of the international\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ebest seller \u003ci\u003eHouse of Leaves\u003c\/i\u003e and National Book Award–nominated \u003ci\u003eOnly Revolutions\u003c\/i\u003e comes a monumental new novel as dazzling as it is riveting. \u003ci\u003eThe Familiar (Volume 1) \u003c\/i\u003eranges from Mexico to Southeast Asia, from Venice, Italy, to Venice, California, with nine lives hanging in the balance, each called upon to make a terrifying choice. They include a therapist-in-training grappling with daughters as demanding as her patients; an ambitious East L.A. gang member contracted for violence; two scientists in Marfa, Texas, on the run from an organization powerful beyond imagining; plus a recovering addict in Singapore summoned at midnight by a desperate billionaire; and a programmer near Silicon Beach whose game engine might unleash consequences far exceeding the entertainment he intends. At the very heart, though, is a twelve-year-old girl named Xanther who one rainy day in May sets out with her father to get a dog, only to end up trying to save a creature as fragile as it is dangerous . . . which will change not only her life and the lives of those she has yet to encounter, but this world, too—or at least the world we think we know and the future we take for granted.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(With full-color illustrations throughout.) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE FAMILIAR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e continues... \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Familiar Volume\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e2\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eWherein the cat is hungry . . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Familiar Volume\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e3 \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWherein the cat is blind . . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Familiar Volume 4 \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWherein the cat is toothless . . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Familiar Volume\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e5\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eWherein the cat is named . . . \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Thrilling and magnetic. . . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Familiar: Volume One \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.” —Laura Collins-Hughes, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “A new novel by Danielewski requires a new way of reading. . . . Reading [\u003ci\u003eThe Familiar\u003c\/i\u003e] . . .  as one approaches the pilot to a new TV series, \u003ci\u003eVolume 1\u003c\/i\u003e becomes a revelation, a thrilling, compulsive reading experience. . . . A tour de force, less a novel than it is an experience. . . . The next volume—episode—can’t come soon enough.” —Robert J. Wiersema, \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e (Toronto)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “Danielewski has somehow created a format, an experience, that mimics the best of the digital future we’ve been told to expect, while exploiting the best of print, that which we’ve been told to mourn. . . . The reader is called upon to commit, to actively participate and engage in the unconventional structure and its relationship to the sprawling, eight-plot narrative, but also to enjoy: as serious as this all may seem, \u003ci\u003eVolume 1\u003c\/i\u003e has a playfulness, a mischievousness, not unlike a cat.\" —Allison K. Hill, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Daily News\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “As our society gets more technology-weary, it’s nice to see books like \u003ci\u003eThe Familiar: Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May\u003c\/i\u003e break the mold and tell a story in a new and innovate way exclusive to physical pages between two covers.” —Andrew Munz, \u003ci\u003ePlanet Jackson Hole\u003c\/i\u003e (Wyoming)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Danielewski is] America’s foremost literary Magus. . . . He transmutes the pages of base books into rare new forms and formats. . . . [\u003ci\u003eThe Familiar: Volume 1\u003c\/i\u003e] is a ‘remediation’ of television series like \u003ci\u003eTwin Peaks\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBreaking Bad\u003c\/i\u003e . . . [and also] resembles Altman-inflected movies . . . or the time and place-skipping novels of David Mitchell. . . . I’m definitely in for Volume 2.” —Tom LeClair, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Excellent. . . . It reminds you of the novel’s unknowable potential. Danielewski does this better than anybody. It’s like he crinkles up a page with words and then straightens it out and pastes it into the book, so that only the most important words remain legible, while teasing you to try to figure out the blurry, scarred sentences hiding in the margins. . . . I love Xanther, \u003ci\u003elove \u003c\/i\u003eher, and I can’t stand the thought of something bad happening to her, and, yes, I’ll keep reading this series as long as her story continues.” —S. Tremaine Nelson, \u003ci\u003eGreen Mountains Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“A herculean achievement. . . . The wild visuals render beautifully on an e-reader, but suggest that the medium of physical books is not entirely replaceable. This book may even have a chance to become this age's equivalent to Marcel Proust's \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Lost Time\u003c\/i\u003e. Danielewski's certainly not aiming any lower.” —Zach Borenstein, \u003ci\u003eEveryday eBook\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Danielewski is] the most aggressively avant-garde popular writer working today. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Familiar: Volume 1 \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.” —Cady Drell, \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e “I found it helpful to think of \u003ci\u003eThe Familiar\u003c\/i\u003e as less of a ‘book’ in the traditional sense of the word, and more as a piece of experimental visual art. . . . If you’re a \u003ci\u003eHouse of Leaves\u003c\/i\u003e fan like me, then this is a book you cannot miss—because there’s simply nothing else like it.” —Jefferson Grubbs, Bustle.com\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eThe Familiar \u003c\/i\u003e[is] Danielewski’s most ambitious narrative undertaking yet, which is saying a lot. . . . More than any other contemporary writer, Danielewski has blown the door wide open on novelistic experimentation. . . . [He] has shown, emphatically, just how much formal experimentation can truly \u003ci\u003eenhance\u003c\/i\u003e a narrative experience. . . . His books are freewheeling adventures into intricate depths and wide expanses, and they’ve helped usher in a new era of the novel.” —Jonathan Russell Clark, LitHub.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Familiar \u003c\/i\u003eis performance art as well as book. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Familiar\u003c\/i\u003e will be a delight to fans of \u003ci\u003eHouse of Leaves\u003c\/i\u003e . . . This, like all of Danielewski’s work, is a verbal structure made for puzzle solvers.” —Lydia Millet, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Incontestably the shortest 880-page novel you’ll ever read. . . . It flies by with the breakneck surrealism of lived experience.” —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “The \u003ci\u003eHouse of Leaves\u003c\/i\u003e author is back with yet another text-art riddled story. The story begins ‘one rainy day in May,’ when a 12-year-old named Xanther is hesitantly studying up on math while riding in the car with her dad. . . . Xanther's story is the nexus for a score of others, and the author's fragmented means of storytelling proves as fresh and compelling as ever.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Huffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, “18 Brilliant Books You Won’t Want to Miss This Summer”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Most everything about this vast, elusive, sometimes even illusory narrative shouts tour de force.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This novel goes beyond the experimental into the visionary, creating a language and style that expands the horizon of meaning . . . [and] hints at an evolved form of literature.” —\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMARK Z. 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