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Ben's mother stops taking her meds and begins to obsess about "lizard people." Ben meets Marco, who claims he's found a wormhole to the year 4000--where lizard-human hybrids exist--and is shocked when some details of Marco's story match episodes in his own life. Ben is a sympathetic protagonist, and the book tantalizingly blurs the boundaries between madness and lucidity.
Reviewer: Caitlin J. Berry
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 2007