This mission and the action that ensues end up with Mirabel saving Zachary and taking him though a doorway in a park. Dorian steals Sweet Sorrows from Zachary, and blackmails him into breaking into the premises of a secret Guardian society to retrieve a book that he, Dorian, requires. Zachary sets out on a quest to find out more, and finds a literary masquerade ball in Manhattan, where he meets two other characters central to the book: Mirabel, who he later discovers is a denizen of the magical underground world upon the Starless Sea, and Dorian. Sweet Sorrows, however, describes the magical library on the other side of the door, and the Starless Sea upon which it sits. Afraid to discover magic isn't real, he demurred to go through it. One day he finds in the library a book called Sweet Sorrows with no author or publication information, and is amazed to discover that among its fairy tales and textual snippets, it also tells stories about him, and especially of an incident when he was a child, and came across a magical door. The modern narrative follows Zachary Ezra Rawlins, who is a graduate student at a New England university. The Starless Sea does not have a linear plot, but rather is a pastiche of a modern narrative, folk tales, mysterious biographical snippets, stories within stories within stories, and the made-up history of the fantastical world within which it takes place, all interlocking and intertwining.
The novel reached number three on The New York Times Best Seller list, and was also a Los Angeles Times and Sunday Times bestseller.
It is her second book, following the best-selling The Night Circus, which was published in 2011. The Starless Sea is a 2019 speculative fiction novel by Erin Morgenstern.
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