First published 2015
Fired from his journalism job in New York, Gavin Sasaki reluctantly returns to his hometown of Sebastian, Florida. As the global economy collapses, Gavin takes a job with his real estate broker sister, Eilo. But when Eilo asks him to investigate a decade-old case involving a missing high school student, Gavin is drawn into a dark, twisting mystery about his own past. Gavin's search leads him to confront the lives he and his friends built after graduation, where dreams of music stardom have given way to darker realities. As Gavin pieces together the truth, he must face the consequences of his own youthful choices and the chance to finally find redemption.
Genres: literary-fiction, mystery, contemporary, family-drama
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, unreliable-narrator
288 pages · Paperback · Picador