Sunderworld, Vol. I: The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry

The instant New York Times bestseller from visionary storyteller Ransom Riggs!Weaving the familiar with the peculiar, this stunning tale of loss, triumph, friendship and magic, will remind readers everywhere that true heroes are made, not born-and when you’re never the chosen one, sometimes you have to choose yourself. Seventeen-year-old Leopold Berry is seeing weird things around Los Angeles.A man who pops a tooth into a parking meter. A glowing trapdoor in a parking lot. A half-mechanical raccoon with its tail on fire that just won’t leave him alone.Every hallucinatory moment seems plucked from a cheesy 1990s fantasy TV show called Max's Adventures in Sunderworld-and that’s because they are.Not a good sign. In the blurry weeks after his mother’s death, a young Leopold discovered VHS tapes of its one and only season in a box headed for the trash-and soon became obsessed.Losing himself in Sunder was the best way to avoid two things: grieving his mother and being a chronic disappointmen