"I wonder how most of us can stay intact, how we don’t splinter, when we carry so many different selves within us.” Eight-year-old Kayla is hit with a baseball and her eyes change color. But something else changes as well—she begins to see apparitions and dreams of events before they happen. That summer, Terry moves next door to Kayla, a boy who dreams of voyaging to outer space. They become fast friends, and along with Camille and Bianca, they bike around their Chicago neighborhood sharing adventures like typical children. Only, they are not typical. After Bianca’s humiliating turn during a game of Spin the Bottle, the four friends start to pull away from each other. Years of petty jabs and a series of misunderstandings slowly fracture their friendship until each is left on their own to battle their traumas of violence and abuse. Alone, mystical Kayla will struggle with her identity and that of her family; enviable Camille will strive to prove her worth as she fights feelings of inadequacy; defiant Bianca will soar to great heights only to find that success does not fill a void hungry for peace; and problem-solving Terry will seek to rationalize even the most elusive of life’s mysteries. Spanning 25 years and startling in its raw emotional power, fans of Jodi Picoult, Chloe Benjamin, and Kawai Strong Washburn will savor this story of friendship between complex individuals. Full of heart and deeply satisfying. Ocampo McIvor is a fresh voice in psychological and magical realism. This book contains graphic violence and child abuse, and is intended for mature readers.