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One book Two readers A world of mystery menace & desire A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger Inside it are his margin notes which reveal a reader entranced by the story & by its mysterious author She responds with notes of her own leaving the book for the stranger & so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown THE BOOK Ship of Theseus the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named V M Straka in which a man with no past is shanghaied onto a strange ship with a monstrous crew & launched on a disorienting & perilous journey THE WRITER Straka the incendiary & secretive subject of one of the world's greatest mysteries a revolutionary about whom the world knows nothing apart from the words he wrote & the rumours that swirl around him THE READERS Jennifer & Eric a college senior & a disgraced grad student both facing crucial decisions about who they are who they might become & how much they're willing to trust another person with their passions hurts & fears S conceived by filmmaker JJ Abrams & written by award-winning novelist Doug Dorst is the chronicle of two readers finding each other in the margins of a book & enmeshing themselves in a deadly struggle between forces they don't understand It is also Abrams & Dorst's love letter to the written word