A beautiful, and also very haunting and sad, coming of age novel. "The sun kept on with its slipping away, and I thought how many small good things in the world might be resting on the shoulders of something terrible." OH, how I loved this passage. I felt so very emotionally drained after reading this book, but I did enjoy being thrust back in time (to the 80s) with June, the excellently fleshed out awkward and insecure teen protagonist. Tuck in if you like a tear-jerker.