This book took a turn I wasn’t expecting, especially for YA, and totally shattered me. It is a captivating, heartbreaking, illuminating look into the life of one Haitian-American teenager. Every character was so multi-faceted and vivid, made even more so by the great narration of the audio version. The last third of the book read almost like Shakespeare, which I know sounds hyperbolic, but something about the storyline, the way everything came crashing together at the end... Well I won’t give it all away, but this book will be staying with me for a long time.