**Instant New York Times Bestseller
One of Fall 2019's Best Books (People, EW, Lithub, Vox, Washington
Post, and more)
A young boy is haunted by a voice in his head in this acclaimed epic of
literary horror from the author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Christopher is seven years old.Christopher is the new kid in
town.Christopher has an imaginary friend.
***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.
