This is a story about a boy who learns to live from a boy with every reason to want to die. OSCAR GRAY has made peace with the fact that death or permanent blindness is soon in his future. He passes the time until then, and believes that life is meaningless anyway. LINCOLN AESTEN is living with his abuser and the murderer of his mother, but learning to find light in the world despite of it. When Oscar and Lincoln meet at an art group, they click. They share thoughts, dreams, memories, agonies and ecstasies. They teach each other that life is much wider than what they previously thought. And they discover that, perhaps, they have met each other before. But Oscar’s world slowly gets filled with colour, Lincoln must look within himself to find the strength he knows his mother once possessed. This is the story about two boys, Oscar and Lincoln, and their misfit friends who find a family in each other—and must learn that the universe is a vast and difficult thing. In breathtaking prose, Grace Curley captures those moments of rapture and woe that every generation encounters, while exploring love and loss, betrayal and trust, family breakdowns and rebirth. Through that exploration comes the discovery of friendship and forgiveness, self-love and acceptance. "Intriguing, artful, heartbreaking, provocative, triumphant, unpredictable, exquisitely detailed and vividly eloquent—a profound and passionate depiction of old minds in young bodies." - Observer