The Adventurists by Richard Butner Paperback Book 9781618731944

amp34Flawless Readers of John Crowley Ray Bradbury and Sally Rooney alike will find a homeamp34Publishers Weekly starred reviewamp10Remember the girl you once knew the theater kid Now shes become the Queen and you might need to rescue her Thereamp8217s the historic house where someone once saw a ghost and you almost fell in love An ornithopter hangs in the lobby of your corporate workplace your coworker thinks he might be able to operate it Once you found a tunnel under your old high school and couldnamp8217t resist going to see where it ledSometimes a door will open into a new world sometimes into the past Putting on a costume might be the restart you are half hoping for There are things buried here You might want to save them You might want to get out of the wayButneramp8217s allusive and elusive stories reach into the uncanny corners of lifeamp8212where there are no job losses just HCAPs Head Count Allocation Procedures where a tree might talk to just one person where Deathamp8217s Fool is not to be ignored