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The Impossible Fortress

Jason Rekulak

If you spent your teenage years at Theo’s arcade in East Lyme, this is the novel for you. Set in 1987, “The Impossible Fortress” revels in the things that many teen boys of that era adored — early-era video games, cheesy pop-culture, and Vanna White’s nude photographs published in Playboy. The latter is what sends our hero and his pals on an ill-fated effort to buy an issue of said Playboy and sell Xeroxed copies to their money-paying schoolmates. “The Impossible Fortress” is a light read at best and feels like a young-adult book, even though it isn’t categorized that way. A note: the author is publisher of Quirk Books, whose big release was “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.” “The Impossible Fortress,” though, is published by Simon & Schuster.