Includes an exclusive reader\'s guide from Zack Smedley From the critically acclaimed author of Deposing Nathan comes an explosive examination of identity, voice, and the indelible ways our stories are rewritten by others.
Heartbreaking and hopeful, this is a coming-of-age story that explores how we rebuild after the World comes crumbling down.. because once she does, it will set off a chain of events that will change their lives forever. . .
And Lily, who can\'t learn that Owen is the mystery victim everyone is talking about .
The school bureaucrats, who seem most concerned with kowtowing to the local media attention.
His father, a mission-driven military vet ready to start a war to find his son\'s attacker.
Owen, still wrestling with his self-destructive thoughts and choices.
In the ensuing investigation, everyone scrambles to hold their worlds together.
But all of it is upended one day when his school\'s administration learns Owen\'s secret: that he was sexually assaulted by a classmate.
Together, the two have spent years navigating first love and amassing an inseparable friend group. then he was befriended by Lily, the aspiring author who helped him find his voice. . .
In the beginning, Owen\'s story was blank .
Includes an exclusive reader\'s guide from Zack Smedley From the critically acclaimed author of Deposing Nathan comes an explosive examination of identity, voice, and the indelible ways our stories are rewritten by others
