While violence runs rampant throughout New York during the summer of 1977, a teenage girl faces danger within her own home in Medina's riveting coming-of-age novel.
"Medina holds nothing back. . . . A devastatingly intense story, this work is a must-have for all collections." -- School Library Journal (starred review)

Meg Medina transports readers to a time when New York seemed balanced on a knife-edge, with tempers and temperatures running high: the infamous summer of 1977, when the city is besieged by arson, a massive blackout, and a serial killer named Son of Sam who shoots young women on the streets. Seventeen-year-old Nora Lopez's family life isn't going so well, either. Before she turns eighteen and can strike out on her own, Nora will discover that the greatest dangers are often closer than we like to admit -- and the hardest to accept.