{"product_id":"mori-michael-seagard-9798989927913","title":"Mori: The Lost Ones Volume 1","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this hallucinatory, emotionally charged work of weird fiction, a self-destructive man who came to Los Angeles to disappear is drawn into a search for missing people-by a voice only he can hear.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe journal Miles \"Mori\" Morhart left behind in a Los Angeles hotel room appears at first to be the wry, world-weary record of a man who walked away from his family because he believes they're better off without him, content to end his drunken days alone in the astrologic haze of Hollywood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the journal soon becomes something far stranger. A voice calls out to Mori from \"across the Cosmic Gulf\"-a man on the other side, searching for the wife and daughter he has lost. And Mori, who knows better than to answer disembodied voices, answers anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe search pulls Mori out of his isolation, toward the woman next door he can't stop thinking about and her small circle of friends, whose lives have also been shadowed by missing loved ones. Together, they're drawn into a dark and strange Los Angeles: psychedelic visions, occult rituals, true-crime dead ends, and urban legends that don't stay legends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe deeper they go, the clearer it becomes that the disappearances are connected, and the closer they get to the truth, the more it threatens to pull them under too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is weird fiction with a broken heart: darkly humorous, genre-blurring, and quietly devastating. A story about whether grace can still reach someone who has stopped believing they deserve it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor readers who love: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHaruki Murakami and Mark Z. Danielewski\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMind-bending, reality-warping stories\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWeird, occult, true-crime Los Angeles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThemes of addiction, regret, and redemption\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDark humor wrapped around genuine heartbreak\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Seagard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798989927913\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Bay Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/08\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 590\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.31d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/2024","brand":"Michael Seagard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48807371276543,"sku":"9798989927913","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mori-michael-seagard-9798989927913","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}