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Claire McKenzie, sixteen, is
a cheerleader, musician, and leukemia survivor. She's haunted by dreams,
day and night, that her cancer is back, and secretly writes music with lyrics
inspired by dark visions of girls who cut themselves with razors and watch
themselves bleed. Her friend Macy is controlling, but she helps Claire
feel "normal." Lani Garver enters the picture as a new student at
their high school. With his porcelain skin, high cheekbones, longish
haircut, and seductive walk, it is hard to be sure if he's a guy or a girl.
Claire's friends decide that he is gay. He is intelligent and worldly
wise and is the one person to whom Claire can talk about her darkest dreams
and fears, but he seems incapable of not speaking the truth even when his
life depends on it. |