The Adventurists

<p><b>"Flawless. . . . Readers of John Crowley Ray Bradbury and Sally Rooney alike will find a home."-<i>Publishers Weekly</i> (starred review)</b></p>
<p>Remember the girl you once knew the theater kid? Now she's become the Queen and you might need to rescue her. There’s the historic house where someone once saw a ghost and you almost fell in love. An ornithopter hangs in the lobby of your corporate workplace: your co-worker thinks he might be able to operate it. Once you found a tunnel under your old high school and couldn’t resist going to see where it led.<br></p><p>Sometimes a door will open into a new world sometimes into the past. Putting on a costume might be the restart you are half hoping for. There are things buried here. You might want to save them. You might want to get out of the way.<br></p><p>Butner’s allusive and elusive stories reach into the uncanny corners of life—where there are no job losses just HCAPs (Head Count Allocation Procedures) where a tree might talk to just one person where Death’s Fool is not to be ignored.</p>