Through The Unknown Remembered Gate

By Jonathan Rashard Gray

"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
-T.S. Eliot, "Four Quartets"

For sixteen-year-old Alex Williams, drawing impossible creatures in the margins of his notebooks is the only escape from a small town that doesn't want him. Black, gay, and grieving his mother's death, Alex has become the target of Chad Morrison-the golden boy whose perfect life is its own kind of prison.

But when their toxic dance of bully and victim explodes into violence, both boys flee into the mist-shrouded forests of the Pacific Northwest, where they discover that the only way out is through-through fear, through change, through an impossible door that leads to a world where transformation is the price of survival.

In this haunting dark fairy tale about identity and becoming, two boys who couldn't be more different must rely on each other to navigate a realm that defies explanation. What they bring back-if they make it back-will challenge everything about who they are and who they're meant to become. A novel in three parts that mirrors Eliot's journey of exploration, transformation, and return.

Through the Unknown, Remembered Gate asks: What if getting lost was the only way to truly be found? And what if the person you're running from is the only one who can help you survive the journey home?

For anyone who's ever felt like they were living in the wrong world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FGQ3RDGG
• ISBN13: 9798290580371
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"