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2000s: A park in San Francisco holds a lot of secrets…
The Boy in the Park
What you need to know before your trail
Dylan goes to the same park every day on his lunch break, he enjoys the quiet solitude just sitting there, people watching and taking time out of his busy day.
He starts to notice another regular in the park, a young boy, always playing alone, playing with a stick at the water’s edge. Slowly, Dylan can see that something is terribly wrong with the child; he seems troubled and unhappy and when bruises start to appear on the boy’s arms, he knows that he must act.
But Dylan starts to become obsessed with the boy takes hold, he embarks on dark, intense and terrifying journey….
Travel Guide
San Francisco
The park where the action takes place is in the heart of San Francisco and it’s a lovely sounding place. The author says that there really is a bench and a secret escape in the Temperate Asia section of the San Francisco Botanical gardens perfectly majestic and surreal, but there is no relation to the novel in real life of course…but there could be. When you sit in the park, who do you see?
The park is tranquil, even beautiful . Not the blue -basined, sanitized sort of water feature too common in public spaces.
A chipmunk descends from a tree
There is a poem here. I can feel it. Woven into the humanity, the natural ebb and flow of life. A poem waiting to be found, waiting to be spoken. One that will sing of something brighter than the dark world that gives it birth”
San Francisco
San Francisco’s not a bad city to look at. I don’t know if it’s the beauty of the bay on its inland side, with its islands and hills and bridges, or the mystery of the endless,borderless ocean stretching out on the other, but something gives this city an aura – an otherness I’ve never felt replicated anywhere else”
Streetview Maps
B) San Francisco - The Asian Garden
C) San Francisco - A bench near a lake in the park
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Boy in the Park
Destination: San Francisco Author/Guide: A J Grayson Departure Time: 2000s
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