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Enigmatic Aviator is Kris Saknussemm’s outrageously amazing nevertheless profoundly moving excavation and exploration of the National dream—and headache.   In 1844, in a still-young America, the very first intimations of civil conflict are mixing through the property. In Zanesville, Ohio, the Sitturd family—Hephaestus, a clubfooted inventor; his spouse, Rapture, a Creole in the Sea Countries; and their prodigiously talented six-year-old boy, Lloyd, whose libido is really as bright as his intellect—are compelled to flee the only real home they've ever known for an uncertain future in Arizona, whence Hephaestus’s half-brother, Micah, has delivered them a strange request, promising riches and miracles also incredible to be trusted to document. Thus begins among the many amazing National trips since Huck Finn and Jim first pressed their host in to the Mississippi.