David Arnold

David Arnold writes imaginative teen fiction about identity, friendship, and the stories people tell themselves. The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik follows sixteen-year-old Noah Oakman after hypnosis leaves familiar details of his world subtly changed. Penguin Random House describes the few constants as Noah's strange fascinations, while the altered facts around his family, dog, and closest friend push him to question memory and reality. The publisher identifies Viking as the original imprint and places the novel among Arnold's books alongside Mosquitoland and Kids of Appetite. Kirkus likewise classifies it as fiction for readers fourteen to seventeen and emphasizes its surreal exploration of a life within a life. Arnold balances the speculative premise with recognizable uncertainty about school, relationships, and the future. The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik is thus less a conventional alternate-world adventure than a coming-of-age puzzle, using changes in Noah's surroundings to examine forgiveness, connection, and whether a predetermined path can be revised.