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Will Byers disappears the night he’s supposed to come home.
They never find his body. They never stop looking, until they do.
Five years later, Mike Wheeler has learned how to swallow his grief. He dates the girl everyone expects him to. He grows up the way he’s supposed to. He tells himself that missing someone is not the same thing as loving them. He tells himself that losing Will didn’t change him.
Somewhere beyond the edges of their world, Will Byers survives. His memories are the first thing to go. His voice follows. His body learns new rules; how to run, how to fight, how to survive. He forgets what it means to be a person, but he never quite forgets what it means to belong to something. Or someone.
When Will finally returns, he doesn’t remember himself.
And as something old and hungry begins to follow him back into Hawkins, Mike is forced to confront the truth he’s spent five years avoiding.
A story about becoming someone new, about loving someone you no longer recognize, and about learning who you have been all along.