Get ready to embark on an absurd, darkly humorous and deeply contemplative journey into the strange corners of grief, identity and belonging, in this fictional Memoir. A harmonious blend of "road novel" and science fiction, with a complicated but endearing narrator as our hapless guide, the reader is encouraged to pause and think.

Richard Collins has lost his son. Awkward, erratic and hungry for something he can't quite name, Richard has spent years moving through life without ever quite knowing what he was looking for. Then his son Matthew disappears without a trace at a button convention, along with a mysterious and priceless artifact. In the blink of an eye, his whole world changes.

With little more than a few clues and a desperate hope that Matthew is still out there, Richard reluctantly sets off on a wayward journey through a landscape that seems increasingly unfamiliar. Along the way, he falls in with strangers; some kind, some cruel, some impossible to understand. Each encounter leaves behind a new revelation.

But the farther Richard travels, the deeper he is drawn into an ever stranger mystery. He begins to wonder if he is really searching for Matthew, or for a better understanding of himself. A journey across a fractured country becomes a deeply human search for a missing son, and a lost sense of belonging.