Four talented teenagers are traumatized—coping with grief, surviving date rape, facing the anxiety of standardized tests, and the neglect of self-absorbed adults. They are desperate to escape the pressure.

They'll even build an invisible helicopter to fly far away to a place where everyone will understand them... until they learn the only way to escape reality is to face it head-on.

This groundbreaking work of surrealist fiction by acclaimed author A.S. King mesmerizes readers with its deeply affecting exploration of how we crawl through traumatic experiences—and find the way out.