S.

Conceived by filmmaker J. J. Abrams and written by novelist Doug Dorst, S. is a novel presented as a library book filled with notes, letters and other items. At its center is Ship of Theseus, a fictional novel by a mysterious author named V. M. Straka. In its margins, two readers, a college student and a disgraced graduate student, exchange handwritten notes as they try to solve the mystery of Straka's identity and fall in love. The book includes postcards, maps and other loose documents.

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Anthony Bourdain: “crazy, brilliant book/object of desire: "S" . Amazing.”