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Book SynopsisFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Name of This Book Is Secret comes a darkly funny story about a boy who wants the world to disappear. This fantastical quest for comfort and belonging was called “a surprisingly powerful, formula-breaking coming-of-age story” by the New York Times.Mickey is angry all the time: at his divorced parents, at his sister, and at his two new stepmoms, both named Charlie. And so he can''t resist the ad inside his pack of gum: Do you ever wish everyone would go away? Buy
The Anti-Book! Satisfaction guaranteed. He orders the book, but when it arrives, it''s blank—except for one line of instruction:
To erase it, write it. He fills the pages with all the things and people he dislikes . . .
Next thing he knows, he''s wandering an anti-world, one in which everything and everyone familiar is gone. Or are they? His sister soon reappears--but she''s only four inches tall. A tiny
