A powerful and redemptive novel of love and family, from the author of the bestselling Blue Shoe, Grace Eventually, and Operating Instructions. Rosie Ferguson is seventeen and ready to enjoy the summer before her senior year of high school. Shes intelligent-she aced AP physics athletic-a former state-ranked tennis doubles champion and beautiful. She is, in short, everything her mother, Elizabeth, hoped she could be. The familys move to Landsdale, with stepfather James in tow, hadnt been as bumpy as Elizabeth feared. But as the school year draws to a close, there are disturbing signs that the life Rosie claims to be leading is a sham, and that Elizabeths hopes for her daughter to remain immune from the pull of the darker impulses of drugs and alcohol are dashed.
