This is the first volume of an announced 27 volumes that Dnaielewski proposes to produce.The plot takes place on a single rainy day and follows the story of a girl named Xanther.The plot ranges in time, in place and with characters in bewildering, creative typography, design, language and poetry. As Tom LeClair wrote in his New York Times Book Review,"To reinforce the exoticism of his material Danielewski invents a nearly opaque pidgen English, interspersed with Russian and Chinese printed characters..two other story lines...Los Angeles subcultures." John Williams adds in his review, "Danielewski's novels are brillintly produced, with text that curves away from the page margins, piles on itself until it becomes unintelligible blocks, and changes colores to represent different charctrers or themes." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.