It’s about a grad student named Zachary Ezra Rawlins who found a painted door when he was eleven years old that would have led him to a magical adventure, but he didn’t open it and now, when he’s almost twenty-five, that story is going to catch up with him and he has to figure out how he fits into it. ![]() It’s about a hidden, subterranean library-esque space filled with books and stories and mysteries and cats. The Starless Sea is about fate and time and missed opportunities and choices and video games. My editor once said trying to describe The Starless Sea is like trying to pour a bottle of wine into a shot glass, so it’s not just me. I’m still terrible at answering this question, you’d think I’d have the hang of it by now. To start, what is The Starless Sea about, and when and where is it set? With the book newly released in paperback, I spoke with Erin via email about what inspired and influenced this story, and some of it, I must warn you, got a little cute. But not taking the road not taken is exactly what Zach regrets in Erin Morgenstern’s magical fantasy novel The Starless Sea ( paperback Kindle, audiobook). Maybe when I was six, seven tops, not eleven. ![]() ![]() ![]() But none of them involve not going on a magical adventure when I was eleven.
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