β Scribed by Leslie Hauser
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Emma Loukas had a typical teenage life. Until she didn't. After choosing to stay home instead of accompanying her family to a minor league baseball game, Emma is not present when a suicide bomber detonates an explosive device at the entrance to the stadium just as her family arrives. In the months that follow, grief therapy and the gloomy looks from friends and her extended family do nothing but drag Emma further down into the rubble left behind by that deadly April afternoon.
To escape the sad reality of her new life, Emma heads across the country to California to spend her senior year with her grandmother. Getting away from her former life is the only way to survive. It doesn't take long, though, for Emma to experience Grandma Connie's dementia, and it's more than a seventeen-year-old is capable of handling on her own. Now, Emma fears she has just made her bad situation worse, and she begins to wonder if it's even worth trying to survive.
But when the family mementos on...
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