Too Far

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"To be free... means always leaving, or returning to the place where leaves never fall." On the outskirts of Fairbanks, six-year-old Robbie meets a mesmerizing girl his own age, an d together they explore the mysterious woodland surrounding their homes. The world they discover is built from their fantasies, and inhabited by creatures born from their dreams. But while Robbie and Fristeen grow inseparable, Robbie's par-ents are drifting apart, and Fristeen's mother is coming undone. As their homes become increasingly unstable, the children travel deeper and farther into their private world. The forest - and the gods who inhabit it - becomes their refuge until, at summer's end, they are forced to choose between the crushing prospects of the real world, and the lethal demands of their ideal one. Told as a parable, and vividly observed, Too Far is an exhilarating and heart-breaking story of an end to innocence that captures the triumphs and follies of the child's imagination as it struggles to remain boundless and free. Show more