Böcker av Shelby Raebeck

Self-described "floater," sixteen-year-old Ricky Hawkins seeks refuge in the game he loves, basketball. As his home life frays, his two sisters intent on grieving their mother's recent death as his father pushes mercilessly forward, Ricky bonds with teammates from Lazy Point, the nearby enclave of fishermen, and Freetown, East Hampton's African-American neighborhood, charting a new course that leads into their homes with their own fractured families, and finally, inescapably, back to his own.Empty roadways winding through farms and woodlands, open vistas of sea and sky-this is the backdrop, seductive and austere, against which Ricky Hawkins recounts the haunting tale of Amagansett '84.

Into the aftermath of 9/11 is born an ever-growing, ill-fitting generation of children that, as the pressures of the 21st century reach their breaking point, simply opts out-from family, school, from the concept of gravity itself-taking flight on the currents of dark energy, upward, outward . . .A modern American odyssey, Wonderless charts the cross-country journey of our first post-anxiety generation-young souls who live without the worry, but also without the wonder.