Publisher's Synopsis
Whether on a skateboard or a surfboard, Joey, born of risk takers, becomes one himself at an early age. At 13, he skates in and out of lightning strikes as if a gazelle chased by a lioness. He crashes into a school bus. In a coma, he enters a fantasy world where nature and truth has gone awry. As a warrior, inspired by a legendary big wave surfer, he hunts down two Cherokee medicine men, Crow Feathers and Elk With No Antlers, he hopes will cure Esther, the love of his life, of leukemia. Lady Matu, a rock star, a cult leader, kidnaps her. Joey rescues her. The medicine men are tricksters. They send him home. Esther is sicker. He returns to that other world. Now Esther is a goddess among disabled, deranged converts. Joey cannot save her. She doesn't want to be saved. He doesn't give up. Crow Feathers tricks him to go back. Esther is cured. But Joey is blind. He has no choice but to return to a world where his emotions, spirit, his will are tossed about like a surfboard tumbled against a coral reef he cannot reach.
