Axel lives in a fantasy world of his own making. When he runs away, Fox must enter that world to try and find his friend.
STEFAN MATTESSICH is the author of four works of fiction: Point Guard, a coming-of-age story set on the Northern California coast of Mendocino; East Brother, a comic novel about gentrification and the end of the counterculture in a fictional California beach town; A Precarious Man, a literary novel about life in contemporary neoliberal society; and The Riverbed, about three imaginative young people coming to learn about the darker sides of the suburban dream they call home. The Riverbed is the recipient of a Literary Titan Book Award. He has also published a monograph on the fiction of Thomas Pynchon, called Lines of Flight. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
