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From the author of Playlist for the Dead and Pushing Perfect comes another smart, layered contemporary YA novel, about a boy on a journey to find the mother he has long believed to be dead.

Patrick "Pack" Walsh may not know exactly where he is going in life, but he is happy where he is. He has a girlfriend who gets him. His single dad is his best friend. After graduation, he has a desk job lined up at the local Crossfit gym, maybe he will even work his way up to trainer. He cannot see himself ever leaving the small town of Brooksby, MA. And he is fine with that. Then, on his eighteenth birthday, a letter from Pack's mother changes everything.

Pack hits the road, searching for a mother he has never known and a family he had no idea existed until now. His journey unearths questions about both of his parents that he never saw coming. And by the end of the summer, Pack has a whole different understanding of his past and most importantly, where he wants his future to lead.

Michelle Falkoff is the author of Playlist for the Dead and Pushing Perfect. Her fiction and reviews have been published in ZYZZYVA, DoubleTake, and the Harvard Review, among other places. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and currently serves as Director of Communication and Legal Reasoning at Northwestern University School of Law.