One Day, Hard and Clear

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A poignant novel about two best friends sharing yearning, rejection, and lip gloss in a close-knit blue-collar town. It's 2004 and childhood friends Sami and Lucy are on the edge of adulthood. Lucy knows what she is going to do — she's going to school and getting out. But Sami, caught in an endless loop with a boy, True, who is from a troubled family, can't seem to get unstuck. "I'd used to feel, when I was with True, that I was safe, that he would take care of me, that he wouldn't let anything bad happen. But now I wasn't sure what I had constructed that from. His easy way with words, his confidence, maybe, his height. I was tall but he was bigger than me; in my mind he was bigger than anyone. Or maybe it was the surprisingly gentle way he'd touch your hair, your face. But in reality, he'd offered no more protection than a child's night light against monsters, a tender deception we fall for, easily, before we grow up and know better." The further Sami