El Niño Perdido

It's 1904, the St. Louis World's Fair is in full swing, and the Wolfe family has traveled from Asheville to offer lodging for their neighbors visiting the fair. The family is soon consumed with the search for its lost son, a 12-year-old of extraordinary sensitivity and maturity. Against the backdrop of provincial America, Thomas Wolfe constructs a novel as beautiful as it is intense and evocative.