" With potent, dreamlike art and compelling prose, the first two volumes of this extraordinary trilogy have captured the creative imaginations of readers and literary reviewers around the world. USA Today called Griffin & Sabine 'wonderous, ingenious' and 'gorgeous'. The San Francisco Chronicle wrote, 'The somewhat conspiratorial thril of reading other people's mail... becomes so infectious, it's impossible to stop until the book's end.' Now, in this final volume, the two artists' haunting correspondence comes to an astonishing conclusion." - Back Cover of Book "'I received your Paris card. I waited byt you did not return on the 23rd. I waited until the 31st, but you did not return. What happened? Where are you? - Sabine' Sabine's Notebook ended with a disturbing disclosure - Griffin and Sabine had somehow eluded each other once again. The Golden Mean begins with an even more disturbing development: 'I was sure I understood. Yet you were not here when I returned, and there was no sign that you ever had been here.... Today comes your card, saying that you were in this house for seven days after my return. I am bewildered.... - Griffin' It seems that each cannot exist in the presence of the other. Yet neither can continue without the presence of the other. And so, in this final volume of the Griffin & Sabine trilogy, they struggle against the mysterious forces that keep them apart. Time is running out: Sabine's crystalline visions of Griffin's artwork grow cloudy and dim, and a threatening stranger begins to appear everywhere she goes. The Golden Mean is the tale of Griffin and Sabine's journey towards one another, sometimes dreamy, sometimes desperate, sometimes nightmarish. The golden mean - the harmony of perfect balance - is what they seek in the haunting conclusion of this extraordinary correspondence. Told in the compelling style of the first two bestselling volumes of the trilogy, The Golden Mean allows readers to open richly decordated envelopes and draw forth intricately illustrated letters, to decipher the quirky handwritten postcards with their macabre and magical artwork, to indulge, in other words, in the wonderfully illicit activity of reading someone else's mail." - Inside Cover of Book.

Adult picture book. Contains removable items as part of the reading experience.