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For fans of Mark Haddon, Tony Earley, and Jonathan Safran Foer, an epic tale of boyhood from an unforgettable new voice.

"Disorienting, weirdly wise, indescribably transparent, impossibly recognizable. Fun, too." ―Joy Williams

A Key to Treehouse Living is the adventure of William Tyce, a boy without parents, who grows up near a river in the rural Midwest. In a glossary-style list, he imparts his particular wisdom on subjects ranging from ASPHALT PATHS, BETTA FISH, and MULLET to MORTAL BETRAYAL, NIHILISM, and REVELATION. His improbable quest―to create a reference volume specific to his existence―takes him on a journey down the river by raft (see MYSTICAL VISION, see NAVIGATING BIG RIVERS BY NIGHT). He seeks to discover how his mother died (see ABSENCE) and find reasons for his father’s disappearance (see UNCERTAINTY, see VANITY). But as he goes about defining his changing world, all kinds of extraordinary and wonderful things happen to him.

Unlocking an earnest, clear-eyed way of thinking that might change your own, A Key to Treehouse Living is a story about keeping your own record straight and living life by a different code.

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About the Author:
Elliot Reed received his MFA from the University of Florida in Gainesville and is currently living in Spokane, Washington.
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“Crisp and lyrical, emotionally assured, delightfully inventive―Reed has made a marvelous debut.”
- Kirkus

“Dark yet uplifting . . . This novel's true joy may be the wonder it radiates about a world as beautiful as it is cruel. See 'OVERCOME BY EMOTION.'”
- Booklist

“Inventive, illuminating . . . Reed offers an impressionistic and profound exploration of self and consciousness.”
- Publishers Weekly

“William sets off down river in a Huck Finn-esque journey that takes him physically and emotionally through mystical and awe-inspiring spaces. . . . giving a book about existential darkness an undeniable sense of beauty and wonder."”
- Shelf Awareness, Starred Review

“Disorienting, weirdly wise, indescribably transparent, impossibly recognizable. Fun, too.”
- Joy Williams

A Key to Treehouse Living―it’s terrific, funny, poignant and just weird enough, transcends that great form. I ate it up.”
- Jess Walter

A Key to Treehouse Living by Elliot Reed scrambles up all the customary codes of the novel to piece together, at last, the moving story of a lost boy searching out his place in the world. What appears as all indexed coda turns out to be a well-told tale and, more vitally for me, the accumulation of enormous incidental pleasures.”
- Joshua Ferris

“Huckleberry Finn advanced out of antebellum doldrums into the poetic modern perverse, with the same charm. Subtle, daring, brilliant.”
- Padgett Powell

A Key to Treehouse Living is a beautiful book that treats language, family, childhood, and storytelling as flexible, luminous, dangerous things. William Tyce is a narrator as compelling as Mark Haddon's Christopher John Francis Boone and Jonathan Safran Foer's Oskar Schell.”
- Gavriel Savit

A Key To Treehouse Living’s precocious autodidact manages his abandonment at the world's hands by remembering that courage might be the ability to not think too long about the worst that can happen. A moving and funny and impressive debut.”
- Jim Shepard

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  • PublisherTin House Books
  • Publication date2018
  • ISBN 10 1947793047
  • ISBN 13 9781947793040
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages170
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