With poetic and passionate prose, Apollo Papafrangou takes us on a universal, coming-of-age journey that stretches from America’s Pacific Coast to a tiny beachside village in Greece. Wings of Wax is a deeply moving and entertaining story about a father and son and the sea that divides them. Papafrangou perfectly captures the loneliness, confusion, and fears of young adulthood and the desires we all possess at our core—to be comfortable in our own skin, to find a place we fit in the world, to have wings like Icarus and soar through the sky without worrying that the sun will melt them away.