The Carpenter of Wonderland

By J.J. Reddy

Fall down the rabbit hole in this queer, mad, neurotic narrative, filled with remote loss, mercurial love, and fractured first steps.A dad who is devoted to his religious cult; a mom who is emphatically devoted to her children; an aunt who invites the woman that broke up his parents marriage to dinner; and a cryptic ghost who toys with video camera recorders. These are the characters who populate the world of J.J. Reddy's The Carpenter of Wonderland.Set at the very beginning of a teenage boy's freshman year of high school and continuing through graduation, The Carpenter of Wonderland examines a flailing adolescence set against the Florida heat. Ambivalent sexuality and volatile family relationships flourish in a series of misadventures that play out against the background of the dysfunctional, three-act drama ignited by his parents' divorce, including his first date with a convicted pedophile, the hunger pangs that come with being Diet Catholic, and a stroll through a utopian neighborhood adjacent to the happiest place on earth. But before he can find his way out of Wonderland, he must let go of the maddest character of them all.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1502331039
• ISBN13: 9781502331038
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"