What if the kids dropped out of school and instead of falling through the cracks they ascended through them?
Self-taught science prodigy, Little Man doesn’t mean to start a movement. He just walks out of school — out of the noise, the pressure, the hollow promises — and keeps going. But something strange happens when he leaves: gravity loosens. The world tilts. And Little Man begins to rise.
Others notice. First Seed and Moses, then Sheila, Hellcat, and dozens more — drifters, runaways, the overlooked and the overburdened — all drawn toward the same destiny. As they move west across America, the group grows into a kind of floating tribe, no longer subscribing to the laws of convention, but lifted on the currents of dark energy.
Told in Little Man’s raw, searching voice, Wonderless follows a generation that refuses to stay grounded in a world that keeps failing them. Their journey becomes part road novel, part physics-defying myth, part coming-of-age story for an era where the old rules — social, emotional, gravitational — no longer hold.
A surreal, heartfelt, and fiercely original novel, Wonderless captures the moment when American greed and anxiety collapses in on itself— and something new emerges.
The question is, will anyone will be around to see it?
After growing up on the East End of Long Island in Amagansett, Shelby Raebeck spent time studying, playing basketball (high school, college, and a lot of pick-up), teaching, coaching, and writing in such places as New York City, Boston, Virginia, Florida, Louisiana, Utah, and California.
In 2000, he returned to the East End with his wife, Page, and their two children, Talia and Sebastian, where he taught English and published the critically acclaimed Louse Point: Stories from the East End, which received a starred review from Kirkus, as well as the two acclaimed novels, Amagansett '84 and East Hampton Blue.
Children now grown, he currently resides in Salt Lake City where he is at work on two children's books and a memoir, Playbook for Lost Souls.
