Book of Lost Things

Check out The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly. It’s about a young boy (David) who loses his mother, and turns to reading fiction books to ease his pain. But the walls between fantasy and reality soon start to crumble, and David finds himself immersed in a world that starkly mirrors his own. http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Book-of-Lost-Things/John-Connolly/e/9780743298902/?itm=1&USRI=the+book+of+lost+things