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The People of Paper - Salvador Plascencia (Goodreads link HERE) This book is one of my absolute favorites, hands down. I found it incredibly moving, the perfect example of accessible postmodernism, and a beautiful tale of love and loss. I recommend it to everyone. The book is unique in that each page is divided into about two columns, with each column representing a character. It can be a continuation of the scene, told from a different perspective, or it can be a different look at the same situation, much like Rashomon. Things also flip on their side to fit more information in:  However, once the plot reveals itself, characters in the novel require their secrets to be kept - from each other as well as the reader. For this, entire columns and smaller sections are completely blacked out:   The columns and the blacked-out areas are just a small taste of the format changes in the book - it goes to more conventional places, it has another novel within it, etc. It's not necessarily a maze or super-duper dense or anything like that, but it offers some experimentation and choice with how to actually approach the whole thing.
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