After five years on the road, Hayley and her father, Andy, have finally settled down so that she can attend a real school for her senior year. Andy is trying to forget the demons that followed him after tours in Iraq and Afghanistan by drowning them in pills and alcohol, leaving Hayley to be the grown up in the family. But she has her own memories that she's running from and being her father's caretaker is a constant struggle. 
 I really enjoyed this book overall. Hayley doesn't care about school or college plans, she's constantly landing herself in detention, and she hates math (automatic love from me lol). She's also quite smart and constantly questioning historical biases on topics such as the Trail of Tears and the Mexican American War. She's witty and snarky and I was rooting for her from page one. 
 The story's topic of PTSD is painful and poignant, but such a relevant topic today. Anderson does a great job of showing the emotional traumas and the effects it has on families. My only problem with the book is the ending. That's what kept this from being a five star book for me. (view spoiler)[It wraps things up far too nicely and gives it a HEA ending in a very epilogue-esque way. For how messy the rest of the book was, I ended up feeling let down by the neatness of it. (hide spoiler)] 
 This definitely isn't a light read, but it's one that is relevant and important to our times.