How do you go about saying goodbye to three dear friends who died in a car accident, an accident that may very well have been caused by your impatient text message to the driver, a decision that may have been an actual crime? This book follows Carver Briggs as he faces this harrowing predicament. 
 I finished the book feeling like Jeff Zentner GETS IT--reminded, really, as I loved his 
 The Serpent King 
 . He gets the teenage experience, the way teenagers move fluidly between humor-filled immaturity and complex desires and emotions. He gets melancoly and grief and the way these things can pull you down into a puddle of immovable, putrid muck. His take on the expanse of grief and the sting of consequences following a crushing tragedy is evocative and heart-wrenching, yet also life-affirming and beautiful. If you enjoy YA, even on occasion, you should go read this right now.