MORI

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>In 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.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The 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.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>But 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.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The 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.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The 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.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>This 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.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>For readers who love:</strong></p><ul><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Haruki Murakami and Mark Z. Danielewski</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Mind-bending reality-warping stories</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Weird occult true-crime Los Angeles</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Themes of addiction regret and redemption</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Dark humor wrapped around genuine heartbreak</span></li></ul><p></p>