Dell is a 15-yr-old boy whose life is thrown upside down when his parents are arrested and jailed. I liked the writing and the in-depth characters. Sometimes the momentum slowed when the narrator was repetitive, but other parts were really enjoyable. The ending/climax could've been more exciting. And part three was a let-down, an unnecessary 24 pages of Dell's nostalgia as an old man, which could've been a two page epilogue. Better yet, I would've liked to know what happened to young dell when he finally went back to school and started his life over.