Mitchell weaves history, science, humor, and suspense through six separate but related narratives, all set in different times and places, and written in various prose styles, and each broken mid-action to be concluded in the second half of the book. One of the stories is set in 1930s and told via letters describing a young musician's effort to become an amanuensis for a renowned, blind composer. Another focuses on a book editor who finds himself imprisoned in a home for the elderly.
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