Dark Cities Underground by Lisa Goldstein

This is probably one of the weirdest books I've read recently but very entertaining.

What if most of the world's children's stories, which were "allegedly" told to children by the authors (J.M. Barrie and the Davies boys for Peter Pan, Kenneth Grahame's son for The Wind in the Willows, and so on) were actually accounts of true things that had happened to the _children_ in a Nether Land/Never Land world, and the adult is writing down these stories?

That's one of the central points in this book but along the way Goldstein also throws in quite a lot of riding on BART and the London Underground, Egyptian mythology, and history of the cemeteries in Colma (not to mention origins for the word "Colma").

I really liked the book on a whole but it did feel not fully fleshed out in some way. Perhaps part of it is the large cast of characters - It felt like some of the supporting characters were there to fulfill a mythic place but they were not really fleshed out as real people.

Good movie companions to this book would be Finding Neverland and Shadowlands.