In the author’s tender, heartwise debut, these eight linked, chronologically arranged stories trace the lives of these two vulnerable young people as they rediscover in each other a world alive with promise and hope. The New York Times Book Review called it “[An] artful debut....Cronin writes clear and careful prose, and is admirably fearless in the scope of his imagination.” Winner of the Hemingway/PEN Award and a Whiting Writers' Award.