A jewel-eyed jack-in-the-box holds a mysterious key to the future of a young boy who runs away from home and hides away in a traveling freak show.
Winner of the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Life Achievement Awards "One of the masters of modern science fiction."--"The Washington Post Book World" Eight-year-old Horty Bluett has never known love. His adoptive parents are violent; his classmates are cruel. So he runs away...