While struggling to cope with her alcoholic boyfriend's betrayal that put her sister in a coma, seventeen-year-old Harley reconnects with neighbor Raf, who is facing his own demons after rehab.

"When Tim and Alice fall in love, Tim thinks he is finally on the right track, until the unexpected consequences of his alcoholic past throw a wrench in his new life"--

Noomi Wadia, a successful journalist in Mumbai, while partaking in a host of patriarchal wedding rituals at the behest of her new in-laws, realizes she is trapped in the same cycle of self-destructiveness as her mother and must battle her impulses or loseit all.

Maverick Falconer is just starting middle school and he wishes he were a hero like his father because maybe then he could deal with his mother's drinking and series of abusive boyfriends, not to mention the kids who bully him in middle school (pretty muchthe same ones who bullied him in elementary school)--but as the year passes he begins to realize that other kids have problems too, and maybe if they can all survive sixth-grade things will get better....