DON QUIXOTE IN NEVERLAND: Where Madmen Become Knights and Children Learn to Grow Up

Don Quixote has spent his whole life searching for a world worthy of his imagination. Peter Pan has spent his refusing to grow out of one.When Peter discovers an extraordinarily vivid child's dream, he follows it expecting pirates, monsters, castles and adventure.Instead, he finds an old man.Don Quixote.Peter brings the knight and his long-suffering companion Sancho Panza to Neverland, where something remarkable happens: for the first time in Don Quixote's life, the world agrees with him.Windmills can be giants. Pirates really do need fighting. Fairies exist. Horses can fly. Dulcinea can finally be real.It is everything Don Quixote ever wanted.And that is precisely the problem.Because Neverland doesn't only listen to his dreams.It listens to his nightmares too.As Don Quixote's imagination begins rewriting the island, Peter discovers that endless adventure can become exhausting, Captain Hook discovers that some enemies are considerably worse than Peter Pan, and Sancho discovers a Lost Boy who may finally understand the importance of eating properly.To save Neverland, the world's most famous mad knight may have to do the one thing he has spent his entire life avoiding: accept reality.And Peter Pan may have to discover that being a child is about more than never growing up.DON QUIXOTE IN NEVERLAND is a darkly comic literary fantasy about imagination, childhood, madness, identity, friendship, and what happens when getting everything you ever dreamed of turns out to be a terrible idea.For readers who enjoy classic literature turned sideways, philosophical fantasy, absurdist humor, dark fairy tales, and stories that are much stranger underneath than they first appear.