David Lieberman Food
It's hard to imagine exactly what David Mitchell was thinking when he began plotting out Cloud Atlas (Hodder and Stoughton, 2004, ISBN: 0375507256), a massive novel composed of multiple books with multiple narrators, all of them connected in some way. Like House of Leaves, Mitchell took a shot on an experimental and different sort of novel and succeeded brilliantly.
The Cloud Atlas
The story begins with the journal of Adam Ewing, a traveler (and notary) who joins a voyage and finds himself caught up in the politics of a sailing vessel as he attempts to come to terms with what could very well be a deadly parasite. With the help of his friend, a doctor, he attempts to stay alive long enough to make it home.
The book then shifts to a man named Robert shortly after World War II. This section is composed of letters Robert is sending to his lover, detailing his exploitation of a master composer who has agreed to take Robert on as an apprentice of sorts.

