NATIONAL BESTSELLER β’ A heartbreaking, wildly inventive, and moving novel narrated by a teenage runaway, from theΒ author of The Flight Attendant.Β
Emily Shepard is on the run; the nuclear plant where her father worked has suffered a cataclysmic meltdown, and all fingers point to him. Now, orphaned, homeless, and certain that sheβs a pariah, Emilyβs taken to hiding out on the frigid streets of Burlington, Vermont, creating a new identity inspired by her favorite poet, Emily Dickinson.Β
Then she meets Cameron. Nine years old and with a string of foster families behind him, he sparks something in Emily, and she protects him with a fierceness she didnβt know she possessed. But when an emergency threatens the fledgling home sheβs created, Emily realizes that she canβt hide forever.
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