Describes the author's struggles as a teen and young adult growing up gay in an intolerant atmosphere in the 1990's, the factors that led him to attempt suicide, and how he ultimately found internal and external acceptance.
Dino and July, seventeen, are granted time to resolve what was left unfinished between them after July's sudden death, one year after their friendship ended over Dino's new relationship.
Abducted by aliens periodically throughout his youth, Henry Denton is informed by his erstwhile captors that they will end the world in 144 days unless he stops them by deciding that humanity is worth saving.