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 int he haunting conclusion to their extraordinary correspondence.
Told in the compelling style of the first two best-selling volumes of the trilogy, The Golden Mean allows readers to open richly decorated envelopes and draw forth intricately illustrated letters, to decipher the quirky handwritten postcards with their macabre and magical artwork, to indulge, in other words, int eh wonderfully illicit activity of reading someone else's mail.
