Mark Z. Danielewski's The Familiar, Volume 4 brilliantly combines
inventive visuals and a paradigm-shifting narrative to create a stunning
multisensory reading experience.
The Familiar Volume 1**** Wherein the cat is found . . . ****
The Familiar Volume 2**** Wherein the cat is hungry . .
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The Familiar Volume 3 Wherein the cat is blind . . .
The Familiar* Volume 4*** Wherein the cat is toothless . . .
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?
THE FAMILIAR*** continues
The Familiar Volume 5 Wherein the cat is named . . .
