A young boy is haunted by a voice in his head in this acclaimed,
bestselling epic of literary horror from the author of The Perks of
Being a Wallflower.
One of The Year's Best Books (People, EW, Lithub, Vox, Washington
Post, and more) We can swallow our fear or let our fear swallow us.
Single mother Kate Reese is on the run. Determined to improve life for
her and her son, Christopher, she flees an abusive relationship in the
middle of the night with her child. Together, they find themselves drawn
to the tight-knit community of Mill Grove, Pennsylvania. It's as far off
the beaten track as they can get. Just one highway in, one highway out.
At first, it seems like the perfect place to finally settle down. Then
Christopher vanishes. For six long days, no one can find him. Until
Christopher emerges from the woods at the edge of town, unharmed but not
unchanged. He returns with a voice in his head only he can hear, with a
mission only he can complete: Build a treehouse in the woods by
Christmas, or his mother and everyone in the town will never be the same
again. Twenty years ago, Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a
Wallflower made readers everywhere feel infinite. Now, Chbosky has
returned with an epic work of literary horror, years in the making,
whose grand scale and rich emotion redefine the genre. Read it with the
lights on.
