num_pages: 320
description: Kicking off a riveting sci-fi trilogy National Book Award winner Pete Hautman plunges us into a world where time is a tool  and the question is who will control it?The first time his father disappeared Tucker Feye had just turned thirteen. The Reverend Feye simply climbed on the roof to fix a shingle let out a scream and vanished  only to walk up the driveway an hour later looking older and worn with a strange girl named Lahlia in tow. In the months that followed Tucker watched his father grow distant and his once loving mother slide into madness. But then both of his parents disappear. Now in the care of his wild Uncle Kosh Tucker begins to suspect that the disks of shimmering air he keeps seeing  one right on top of the roof  hold the answer to restoring his family. And when he dares to step into one hes launched on a time-twisting journey  from a small Midwestern town to a futuristic hospital run by digitally augmented healers from the death of an ancient prophet to a forest at the end of time. Inevitably Tuckers actions alter the past and future changing his world forever.
language: English
title: The Obsidian Blade
publisher: Candlewick