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After being forgotten at home by his distractible parents, Patrick slips into an alternate world--"Ith"--where social media runs rampant and conformity is prized above all else. There he is recruited to "restore balance" to an out-of-control regime. Timely themes of surveillance and freedom are sometimes lost under a mountain of set pieces that will frustrate as many readers as they delight.