When Hayley moves back to her hometown after years on the road with her dad, a veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, she struggles to find a sense of normalcy while dealing with her father's terrible PTSD and her resurfacing memories of a very tough childhood.

Anderson takes a very timely topic, PTSD and mental illness, and illuminates it for young adults in a wonderful way. None of the characters are perfect, including Hayley, and each has their own struggles.

Finn, Hayley's eventual boyfriend, is portrayed as very sensitive, but Anderson doesn't devolve his character into soley Hayley's support system. Anderson captured a very real teen guy in Finn, and I appreciated this. Yes, girls, sometimes boys are just jerks and don't return your phone calls.