In Family Matters, David Kranes crafts a lyrical and deeply human portrait of Hunt—a painter, father, and husband—caught between art and obligation. His search for meaning leads him from the deserts of Tucson to the museums of Europe, tracing the delicate balance between creation and connection. With prose as precise as brushstrokes, Kranes explores how the heart reconciles family, ambition, and the endless pursuit of beauty.

What if the kids dropped out and instead of falling through the cracks they ascended through them?

When self-taught science prodigy, Little Man, stops going to school, he’s not acting on principle but nature, the laws of gravity no longer holding. Unloosed from the constraints—of school, society, gravity—he and his mates—Seed and Moses, Sheila and Hellcat—rise up on the currents of dark energy, climbing and ziplining on the fire escapes of Hell’s Kitchen and into the trees of Central Park. Their pack growing, they flow onto New York’s east side bridges, and up onto the towers of the Verrazzano. From there, they keep moving west, attracting more kids as they go, all of them drawn toward the same unspoken destiny.

Told in Little Man’s raw, searching voice, Wonderless follows a generation that refuses to stay grounded in a world that has failed them, their journey, from NYC clear across to the Golden Gate Bridge, becoming part road novel, part physics-defying myth.

A surreal, heartfelt, and fiercely original novel, Wonderless captures the moment when American greed and anxiety collapse upon themselves, and something new emerges.

The question is, who will be around to see it?