Five months ago, Ulysses Halder saw himself as the survivor of his father’s abuse. Now, after moving out on his own, he’s finally able to undertake a normal life in Morwalk county. Or so he thinks.

While stuck repeating his senior year of high school, Ulysses hears about a thought-eating machine the government abandoned in a mill and decides to use it to rid himself of traumatic memories.

Against the advice of his companions, Ulysses hunts for what he believes to be life-changing technology, putting himself face-to-face with the Crux, an infallible street gang who wants nothing but to make an example of new kids.

When his mother, visibly bruised and crying, knocks on the door, Ulysses shelters her, and by his mother’s words, thinks his father fell to a deadly, domestic altercation.

If she’s wrong, chances are, they won’t escape if his father shows up. But if they stay, the machine might be the only hope of erasing every horrible thing done to his family.

U is a riveting story of a young man, an underdog, suffering from cognitive and emotional stress due to his parent’s relationship. When he needs to deal with life’s circumstances, the mystical and even the unimaginable seems to be the only way out.