At the edge of a desolate Atlantic resort, twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer stands between a dying mother and a world that is beginning to fray at the seams. His mother, Lily, is a faded Hollywood queen fleeing a phantom threat, but the cancer eating away at her is all too real. Jack’s desperation attracts the attention of Speedy Parker, an enigmatic maintenance man who reveals that the cure for Lily’s illness does not exist in our reality. Instead, it lies at the end of a perilous journey across the Territories—a majestic, terrifying parallel world that mirrors the American landscape in distorted, medieval detail.

To save his mother, Jack must "flip" between the two realities, navigating a cross-country odyssey that is as much about spiritual endurance as physical survival. The mechanics of t...

At the edge of a desolate Atlantic resort, twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer stands between a dying mother and a world that is beginning to fray at the seams. His mother, Lily, is a faded Hollywood queen fleeing a phantom threat, but the cancer eating away at her is all too real. Jack’s desperation attracts the attention of Speedy Parker, an enigmatic maintenance man who reveals that the cure for Lily’s illness does not exist in our reality. Instead, it lies at the end of a perilous journey across the Territories—a majestic, terrifying parallel world that mirrors the American landscape in distorted, medieval detail.

To save his mother, Jack must "flip" between the two realities, navigating a cross-country odyssey that is as much about spiritual endurance as physical survival. The mechanics of t...