Set This House in Order
Subtitle: A Romance of Souls
By: Matt Ruff.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 479
Subjects: Multiple personality -- Fiction; Adult child abuse victims -- Fiction; Washington (State) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Andy Gage was "born" just two years ago, called into being to serve as the public face of a multiple personality.

While Andy deals with the outside world, more than a hundred other souls share an imaginary house inside Andy's head, struggling to maintain an orderly co-existence: Aaron, the father figure, who makes the rules; Adam, the mischievous teenager, who breaks them; Jake, the frightened little boy; Aunt Sam, the artist; Seferis, the defender; and Gideon, the dark soul, who wants to get rid of Andy and the others and run things on his own.".

"Andrew's new coworker, Penny Driver, is also a multiple personality - a fact that Penny is only partially aware of. When several of Penny's other souls ask Andy for help, Andy reluctantly agrees, setting in motion a chain of events that threatens to destroy the stability of the house. Now Andy and Penny must work together to uncover a terrible secret that Andy has been keeping from himself ..."--BOOK JACKET.