The Absentee

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A young man wakes up in a college dormitory with no idea who he is where he is or how he got there. Soon he discovers a secret within himself that marks him as an outcast and places him in danger. He tries to solve the riddle of his nature - and whether it means he has a special purpose for good or ill. After the loss of the one person he loves cryptic clues steer him toward a quest to the ends of the Earth from Peru to Kyrgyzstan to Tasmania. A time is coming when he will be called on to summon what courage he has for the sake of the humans.</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Inspirations:</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Frankenstein </em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>by Mary Shelley </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Pinocchio</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> by Carlo Collodi and </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Definitely Maybe</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Tone:</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> Darkly humorous outsider fiction.</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Ideal for whom?</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> Introverts. The hero is not by nature a man of action </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>-</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> his fate was thrust upon him. He is insular observant and barely social. He feels the pull of the humans yet flees them as a mortal peril.</span></p>