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288 pages.
Summary: For most of her young life Avery has dealt with her alcoholic mother with the help of her grandfather Pal--she immerses herself in poetry and popular music, and now that high school is over for the summer, she makes out with her best friend Luca (who understands about alcoholic mothers), but the death of her grandfather creates a hole in her life that she can not seem to crawl out of.