A girl with no past meets a boy who remembers everything.
Who drives the story
Seventeen, adopted at five, no memories before that, homeschooled until senior year. She wants a normal life and a self that makes sense — and gets both, at a price she never saw coming.
The intense boy from the hallway who knows Sky isn't Sky. He wants her, but he's also carrying his own grief, and his recognition of her is tangled in it.
Sky's adoptive mother, who has refused to discuss her daughter's past for twelve years. Her silence is the book's central wall — and eventually, its most painful act of love.
Sky's best friend, partner in spray-paint crime, and the girl Holder mistakes her for — a mistake that says more about Holder than about Six.
Sky's openly gay Mormon locker neighbor and first real friend at public school. He's the normalcy Sky gets to keep.
How they are connected
The intense boy from the hallway who knows Sky isn't Sky.
Sky's adoptive mother, who has refused to discuss her daughter's past for twelve years.
Sky's best friend, partner in spray-paint crime, and the girl Holder mistakes her for — a mistake that says more about Holder than about Six.
Sky's best friend, partner in spray-paint crime, and the girl Holder mistakes her for — a mistake that says more about Holder than about Six.
Sky's openly gay Mormon locker neighbor and first real friend at public school.
Go deeper
Memory as identity · Protection versus truth · The body remembers · Love built on damage
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