While violence runs rampant throughout New York, a teenage girl faces
danger within her own home in Meg Medina's riveting coming-of-age
novel.
Nora Lopez is seventeen during the infamous New York 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. Nora's
family life isn't going so well either: her bullying brother, Hector, is
growing more threatening by the day, her mother is helpless and falling
behind on the rent, and her father calls only on holidays. All Nora
wants is to turn eighteen and be on her own. And while there is a cute
new guy who started working with her at the deli, is dating even worth
the risk when the killer likes picking off couples who stay out too
late? Award-winning author Meg Medina transports us to a time when New
York seemed balanced on a knife-edge, with tempers and temperatures
running high, to share the story of a young woman who discovers that the
greatest dangers are often closer than we like to admit--and the hardest
to accept.