The lost world summary by Michael Chabon?

Answer 1

Nathan Shapiro, 16, lives in Huxley with his mother and stepfather, with whom he doesn't get along. He is upset by the news that his father and stepmother are about to have a child; he reacts by getting drunk and driving around town with three friends one night. They end up at the house of Chaya Feldman, a girl with the reputation of being sexually promiscuous. As children, Nathan and Chaya played a game called Planet of the Birds, pretending to be in an imaginary world called Jadis. Nathan, emerging nude from the car, swims in the Feldmans' pool before knocking on Chaya's window. She lets him in. They kiss, and she tells him that she is leaving in the morning for Israel (her father is Israeli). She scribbles a note to him, telling him to pretend she sent it from Israel. Nathan finds his friend asleep in the car; he hides the note in a bird-feeder. When he tries to retrieve it next evening, it's gone. Later he receives it in the mail; he assumes someone found it and sent it. It says that he used to make her laugh; disappointed, he tears it up. Then he notices its foreign stamp and postmark.