Showing results for "the-fell" in Coming of Age

After his mother's death, 12-year-old Samuel Chambers would do anything to turn back time. Prompted by three strange carnival fortune-tellers and the surfacing of his mysterious and reclusive neighbor, Samuel begins his search for the Tree of Life - the only thing that could possibly bring his mother back. His quest to defeat death entangles him and his best friend Abra in an ancient conflict and forces Samuel to grapple with an unwelcome question....

Joel is growing up. He is getting interested in girls. Just look at his New Year's resolutions: 1 - to see a naked lady; 2 - to toughen himself up so that he can live to be a hundred; and 3 - to see the sea. They all look pretty impossible for a motherless boy in Northern Sweden. Especially as his sailor dad is keen to drown his sadness in drink, and all the local matrons are narrowly watching the pair of them.

"Das kann doch nicht alles sein im Leben", sagt sich Lisa, bricht ihre Ausbildung als Bankkauffrau ab und bricht damit auch mit allem, was ihre Eltern und Freund Max sich vorgestellt haben. In einer Spontanaktion bucht sie ein Busticket nach Köln. Dort beginnt ein Abenteuer, in dem sie auf die Tätowiererin Karla trifft, die ihr eine Welt zeigt, die Lisa bis dahin nur aus Filmen kannte. Zwischen Couchsurfing, Partys und existenziellen Lebenskrisen erkundet die junge Frau nicht nur ihre Sexualität, sondern auch die Möglichkeit, dass Träume keine Träume bleiben.

Before the Tree of Life, everything in Abra Miller's life had been predictable. But after the Tree and the lightning and the angels, everything felt tenuous, like holding a soap bubble in the palm of her hand. She spent years looking for signs of that other world, waiting for it to break through. When it didn't, her friendship with Sam Chambers grew cold and distant, and they both wondered how any of it could actually have happened. Four years later, 16-year-old Abra's quest is renewed when she is directed to New Orleans to the grave of Marie Laveau, one of seven gateways between this world and Over There.