The Way We Bared Our Souls

If you could trade your biggest burden for someone else’s, would you do it? Five teenagers are about to find out.

“Utterly original, haunting, and honest, Strayhorn’s literally infectious story of fear and hope will change the way you view your flaws forever.”—Una LaMarche, critically acclaimed author of Like No Other and Five Summers

Five teenagers gather around a bonfire in the middle of the New Mexico desert.

They don’t know it yet, but they are about to make the biggest sacrifice of their...