A WORLD APART
It was an ordinary life for a young boy: living alone with his parents in a vast, beautiful, but empty world, reading fairy tales about another world where huge numbers of people fought and loved under a capricious moon. August was taught from an early age that things would someday change, and he would have to leave home on a great adventure. But August’s greatest adventure would begin closer to home, the day of the Pajama Wind, when he stepped out of his bedroom window and found that he wasn’t bound by gravity and could soar among the clouds. Little did he know that the strange, crimson lights that surrounded him as he flew possessed devastating power that can help him on his quest -- or destroy whole worlds. And then one day his parents are gone, and he must journey into unbelievable danger to find them again, a quest across half a world, without the slightest clue about why. Thrown into the heart of an insoluble mystery, August will find the shattering truth of his own---and Purlieu’s—extraordinary destiny.
"A delightful adventure story set in a marvelous world filled with mysteries and wonders. Purlieu is being marketed as a teen book, but don’t let that put you off: it’s one of those universal stories that any age can appreciate."
--Analog Science Fiction Magazine
“Original, intelligent and challenging. Michael Capobianco has written an unpredictable, unconventional tale certain to linger in the reader's mind.”
--Paula Volsky, author of Illusion
