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Unconditional Satisfaction GuaranteeNo Shipping Fees Above 302 Months to Decide. Returns Simplified.A poignant coming-of-age novel about two best friends whose friendship is tested when they get the opportunity to leave their impoverished small town for an elite prep school.Alove letter to Appalachia, nature, poetry, friendship and family.Looking for AlaskameetsFriday Night Lights.
Life in a small Appalachian town is not easy.
Cash lost his mother to an opioid addiction and his Papaw is dying slowly from emphysema. Dodging drug dealers and watching out for his best friend, Delaney, is second nature. Hes been spending his summer mowing lawns while she works at Dairy Queen.
But when Delaney strikes gold with her extracurricular science research and manages to secure both of them full rides to an elite prep school in Connecticut, Cash will have to grapple with his need to protect and love Delaney, and his love for the grandparents who saved him and the town he has to leave behind.
Zentner conjures a moving and rich novel about friendship, loss, kind strangers, the blindness so often present in the pursuit of love, and love itself. His protagonists have their eyes raised to the sky. Daniel Woodrell forThe New York Times Book Review
A brilliant treasure of a bookthat holds up a mirror to the best parts of our humanity.Kirkus Reviews,starred review
Evocative and moving, highlighting Zentners impressive skill with both poetry and prose.Publishers Weekly,starred review
A wise, gorgeous exploration of loss and survival that will make readers cryLyrical and heartbreaking.School Library Journal, starred review
Heartfelt and deeply movinga book that readers will unhesitatingly take to theirhearts. Booklist, starred review
