The Way Through Doors by Jesse Ball

Jesse Ball doesn't use quotation marks or page numbers, opting instead for numbering every 5th paragraph.

The novel embraces absurdity while toying with surrealism. One story flows into another, sometimes without the reader realizing exactly when he has passed through one of the many "doors". Reality shifts and bends and folds back onto itself, and some stories are called back to be told in different ways. Main characters find themselves persuing each other through varying tales as the man telling them tries to help an amnesiac woman find out who she really is. This can make it a little difficult to stay interested. Just as the reader becomes invested in one story, another comes along to take its place, leaving the first with no resolution.

Twice while reading the book, I felt that he described the very book I was reading through his characters' words:

"Who can say therefore where a certain person is, for what is it that anchors a person? Is it their place in the story to which you are a part? Many stories hereabouts run side by side, and you can not be at pains to unpin them, for they are sharp, and you will only sting the tips of your fingers." - paragragh 966

"Events are continuous, not broken, and they never move on. Stories tell themselves one to another, over and over, never ceasing, and we skip here and there, saying this is consciousness, this acrobatic feat, but what of remaining?" - paragraph 1813