A brilliant, boundary-leaping debut novel tracing twelve-year-old
genius map maker T.S. Spivet's attempts to understand the ways of
the world When twelve-year-old genius cartographer T.S. Spivet
receives an unexpected phone call from the Smithsonian announcing
he has won the prestigious Baird Award, life as normal-if you
consider mapping family dinner table conversation normal-is
interrupted and a wild cross-country adventure begins, taking T.S.
from his family ranch just north of Divide, Montana, to the
museum's hallowed halls. T.S. sets out alone, leaving before dawn
with a plan to hop a freight train and hobo east. Once aboard, his
adventures step into high gear and he meticulously maps, charts,
and illustrates his exploits, documenting mythical wormholes in the
Midwest, the urban phenomenon of "rims," and the pleasures of
McDonald's, among other things. We come to see the world through
T.S.'s eyes and in his thorough investigation of the outside world
he also reveals himself. As he travels away from the ranch and his
family we learn how the journey also brings him closer to home. A
secret family history found within his luggage tells the story of
T.S.'s ancestors and their long-ago passage west, offering profound
insight into the family he left behind and his role within it. As
T.S. reads he discovers the sometimes shadowy boundary between fact
and fiction and realizes that, for all his analytical rigor, the
world around him is a mystery. All that he has learned is tested
when he arrives at the capital to claim his prize and is welcomed
into science's inner circle. For all its shine, fame seems more
highly valued than ideas in this new world and friends are hard to
find. T.S.'s trip begins at the Copper Top Ranch and the last known
place he stands is Washington, D.C., but his journey's movement is
far harder to track: How do you map the delicate lessons learned
about family and self? How do you depict how it feels to first
venture out on your own? Is there a definitive way to communicate
the ebbs and tides of heartbreak, loss, loneliness, love? These are
the questions that strike at the core of this very special debut.
Now a major motion picture directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and
starring Kyle Catlett and Helena Bonham Carter.
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