«I felt the hot tears streaming down my cheeks. Nothing was real. Nothing could be real. Everything I thought I was had been ripped out from inside of me…it felt like I was sinking in quicksand, but I got up and ran anyway. I ran down the broken, lifted sidewalks. I ran under the old trees with their long drooping branches. I ran in the moonlight and the streetlight…I kept running. I had never run before. But that night, somehow, I was running. My legs felt like they were weighed down by a hundred anchors, but something made me keep running.»
As Cameron Metzger stands on the cusp of age twenty, he reflects on his life as an underachieving hopeless romantic. He vividly recalls first cars and first kisses with sentimental sadness, as he struggles to cope with the suffocating secret that he kept hidden for years. He learns that he's not the only family member with a secret, and what he discovers changes him forever.
