Lina Karpenter expected changes after the death of her mother. What she couldn't foresee was the entrance of a father she thought was dead, and a new life centered in the southern world of gun-toting fifteen-year-olds who drive dinghies and pickup trucks. Navigating her strange southern surroundings, Lina begins to question her feelings for both a girl and an African American boy, neither considered commonplace in the south. Her troubles compound, when on her sixteenth birthday she unknowin...


