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House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

A labyrinthine novel about a house that is larger on the inside than the outside, told through nested narratives, footnotes, and typographical experiments that mirror the disorienting architecture within. Danielewski's cult classic is both a meditation on absence and loss and a genre-defying exploration of how we construct meaning from stories.

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