The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Neil Gaiman)

The main events in this very small novel involve a seven-year-old boy, but this is not a children's book. As a child, the narrator became involved in increasingly bizarre and dangerous supernatural events, centering on the inhabitants of a neighboring farm. It is framed in a flashback from the man's middle age, but even the framing story has a surprise. The tale is magical, literally and literarily, and captured my spirit and my imagination. This is not a weighty book; it floats. I loved it.