Kate Reese flees an abusive relationship with her son, settling in the tight-knit community of Mill Grove, Pennsylvania.
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Now, Chbosky has returned with an epic work of literary horror, years in the making, whose grand scale and rich emotion redefine the genre.
Twenty years ago, Stephen Chbosky\'s The Perks of Being a Wallflower made readers everywhere feel infinite.
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.
Until Christopher emerges from the woods at the edge of town, unharmed but not unchanged.
For six long days, no one can find him.
Then Christopher vanishes.
At first, it seems like the perfect place to finally settle down.
Just one highway in, one highway out.
It\'s as far off the beaten track as they can get.
Together, they find themselves drawn to the tight-knit community of Mill Grove, Pennsylvania.
Determined to improve life for her and her son, Christopher, she flees an abusive relationship in the middle of the night with her child.
Single mother Kate Reese is on the run.
O ne 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.
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 .
He returns with a voice in his head only he can hear, with a mission only he can complete.
Then Christopher vanishes for six days.
Kate Reese flees an abusive relationship with her son, settling in the tight-knit community of Mill Grove, Pennsylvania