The boldly surreal, highly acclaimed novel that School Library Journal called an "ambitious, haunting work of art" in a starred review is now available in paperback. Four talented teenagers are traumatized--coping with grief, surviving date rape, facing the anxiety of standardized tests and the neglect of self-absorbed adults--and they'll do anything to escape the pressure. They'll even build an invisible helicopter, to fly far away to a place where everyone will understand them...until they learn the only way to escape reality is to face it head-on.