When Brian Tetsuro Ivie entered film school in the fall of 2009, he was there to become a director of the biggest movies in Hollywood. A self-described film geek, with dreams of making it out of the small town he had grown up in, Brian feared nothing more than flunking out. Little did he know that an article in the newspaper would soon send him and his closest friends 6,000 miles away, to the house of a man who had built a strange contraption, one that even his favorite films could hardly imagine—a mailbox for children. A coming-of-age story, filled with the honesty and lyricism of a modern poet, and told by a true lover of cinema, The Drop Box, is a funny and tender-hearted debut by an author whose story is only just beginning.