Absentee

<p>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.</p><p><strong>Inspirations: </strong> Frankenstein </em>by Mary Shelley Pinocchio</em> by Carlo Collodi and Definitely Maybe</em> by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.</p><p><strong>Tone: </strong> Darkly humorous outsider fiction.</p><p><strong>Ideal for whom?</strong> Introverts. The hero is not by nature a man of action <strong>-</strong> 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.</p>