Pobby and Dingan

This ecstatically received debut novel is at once a beautifully rendered narrative of childhood loss and a powerfully simple fable of the necessity of imagination. Pobby and Dingan are Kellyanne Williamson's best friends, maybe her only friends, and only she can see them. Kellyanne's brother, Ashmol, can't see them and doesn't believe they exist anywhere but in Kellyanne's imagination. Only when Pobby and Dingan disappear, leaving Kellyanne bereft, does Ashmol realize that not only must he believe in Pobby and Dingan, he must convince others to believe in them, too.