The Wordsmith, The Kid, and the Electrolux

I was not certain if the whole world I had fallen into was upside-down and I was right-side-up, or vice versa. Young Corey's secret life began the day his father refused him a cup of coffee. It drew him, again and again, to the coiling dragon on his father's green Chinese box and to the Carnival Surprise of the ice-cream man, Mr. Good. But he had no idea his desires would propel him with a whoosh into the strange, dark closet...or a headlong, terrifying fall and the adventure of a lifetime.