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Neglected by self-absorbed parents who wind up divorcing by the time she’s sixteen, Carly Klein is sustained by her best friend, Lauren. But when Lauren and her family move away, Carly is forced to find new ways to entertain herself. It doesn’t take her long to locate the perfect subject: her therapist mother’s patients. Carly soon becomes obsessed with one patient in particular—Daniel, a blind junior at Columbia College—and, desperate to become part of his life and knowing he’ll never go for a high school girl, gets close to him by pretending to be a student at neighboring Barnard College.

Growing up under wide blue skies, Effie is snug on the family ranch in Arizona. But in an instant, she learns that life and death and plans aren’t even on speaking terms. Hiding her part in the death of her best friend covers grief with guilt. And then there is the foster sister invading her life. Straight off the Navajo reservation, Verna Yazzie’s differences infuriate Effie. Confronting her own prejudice and searing loss, she must share her home and family with someone she loathes. Both girls stumble to understand each other in a year long journey filled with humor and heartache.