
Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal Winner of the American Library Association Morris Award for best debut YAWinner of the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Book Award for Young Adult Fiction A Buzzfeed Best of 2016 book Goodreads Choice Awards finalist A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2016 Publishers Weekly Best of 2016 Dill is a misfit in his small religious Tennessee town His dad is in prison for a shocking crime & his mom is struggling to make ends meet The only things getting Dill through senior year are his guitar & his fellow outcasts Travis & Lydia Travis is an oddball who finds comfort from his violent home life in an epic fantasy book series & Lydia is like no one else fast-talking creative & fiercely protective Dill fears his heart will break when she escapes to a better life elsewhere What Dill needs now is some bravery to tell Lydia how he feels to go somewhere with his music
- & to face the hardest test of all when tragedy strikes