A Handbook for Visitors from Outer Space

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A sharply fresh vision of our time conveyed through the experiences of a boy filled with classic yearnings for family wholeness and national honesty, on a quest to uncover his elders' secrets. Beginning with a mysterious, unlocatable, war and concluding with a battle on the New Jersey Turnpike, this is a "mad fairy tale that unexpectedly turns out to be true" by "such an engaging storyteller that we willingly submit, believing the impossible." ( The New York Times Book Review ) "A combination of inspired tenderness and brilliant technique; reads as if it were written by a very witty angel." -- The Boston Herald