{"product_id":"a-key-to-treehouse-living-isbn-9781947793590","title":"A Key to Treehouse Living","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn Indies Introduce Pick, Indie Next Pick, and an Amazon Best Book of the Month, \u003ci\u003eA Key to Treehouse Living\u003c\/i\u003e will introduce you to a modern Huck Finn—an unforgettable voice that will stay with you long after you finish the final page.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Disorienting, weirdly wise, indescribably transparent, impossibly recognizable. Fun, too.\" ―Joy Williams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor fans of Mark Haddon, Tony Earley, and Jonathan Safran Foer, an epic tale of boyhood from an unforgettable new voice.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Key to Treehouse Living i\u003c\/i\u003es the adventure of William Tyce, a boy without parents, who grows up near a river in the rural Midwest. In a glossary-style list, he imparts his particular wisdom on subjects ranging from ASPHALT PATHS, BETTA FISH, and MULLET to MORTAL BETRAYAL, NIHILISM, and REVELATION. His improbable quest—to create a reference volume specific to his existence—takes him on a journey down the river by raft (see MYSTICAL VISION, see NAVIGATING BIG RIVERS BY NIGHT). He seeks to discover how his mother died (see ABSENCE) and find reasons for his father’s disappearance (see UNCERTAINTY, see VANITY). But as he goes about defining his changing world, all kinds of extraordinary and wonderful things happen to him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnlocking an earnest, clear-eyed way of thinking that might change your own, \u003ci\u003eA Key to Treehouse Living\u003c\/i\u003e is a story about keeping your own record straight and living life by a different code.Crisp and lyrical, emotionally assured, delightfully inventive—Reed has made a marvelous debut.—Kirkus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDark yet uplifting . . . This novel's true joy may be the wonder it radiates about a world as beautiful as it is cruel. See 'OVERCOME BY EMOTION.'—Booklist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInventive, illuminating . . . Reed offers an impressionistic and profound exploration of self and consciousness.—Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam sets off down river in a Huck Finn-esque journey that takes him physically and emotionally through mystical and awe-inspiring spaces. . . . giving a book about existential darkness an undeniable sense of beauty and wonder.\"—Shelf Awareness, Starred Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDisorienting, weirdly wise, indescribably transparent,\nimpossibly recognizable. Fun, too.—Joy Williams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Key to Treehouse Living\u003c\/i\u003e—it’s terrific, funny, poignant and just weird enough, transcends that great form. I ate it up.\n—Jess Walter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Key to Treehouse Living\u003c\/i\u003e by Elliot Reed scrambles up all the customary codes of the novel to piece together, at last, the moving story of a lost boy searching out his place in the world. What appears as all indexed coda turns out to be a well-told tale and, more vitally for me, the accumulation of enormous incidental pleasures.\n—Joshua Ferris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHuckleberry Finn advanced out of antebellum doldrums into the poetic modern perverse, with the same charm. Subtle, daring, brilliant.—Padgett Powell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Key to Treehouse Living\u003c\/i\u003e is a beautiful book that treats language, family, childhood, and storytelling as flexible, luminous, dangerous things. William Tyce is a narrator as compelling as Mark Haddon's Christopher John Francis Boone and Jonathan Safran Foer's Oskar Schell.\n—Gavriel Savit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Key To Treehouse Living\u003c\/i\u003e’s precocious autodidact manages his abandonment at the world's hands by remembering that courage might be the ability to not think too long about the worst that can happen. A moving and funny and impressive debut.\n—Jim Shepard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePowered in part by longing and a need to make odd\nassociations add up, this very appealing novel emplys jellybeans and gypsies,\ntree forts and rafts, and a character known as El Hondero to trace the odd\nconjuring that this narrator brings us in on. A memorable debut.—Amy Hempel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCaptivating . . . Through its deceptively simple structure, \u003ci\u003eA Key to Treehouse Living\u003c\/i\u003e creates a portrait of a compelling, perceptive adolescent who keeps slipping through society’s cracks.\n—Foreword ReviewsElliot Reed received his MFA from the University of Florida in Gainesville and is currently living in Spokane, Washington.","brand":"Tin House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48232887386341,"sku":"NP9781947793590","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781947793590.jpg?v=1767720550","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-key-to-treehouse-living-isbn-9781947793590","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}