Robert Bausch

The story of a teacher who cares too much, or perhaps not enough. A novel about the responsibility of friendship and the limits of compassion and action in circumstances most fraught with those problems: a high school.

"Sometimes harrowing, sometimes funny, often luminously beautiful and always profoundly imaginative and moving..."

“A beautiful and aching novel, alarming in its wisdom and treatment of one of the great terrors, loneliness, and one of the great mercies, forgiveness.”

“An experience so intimate... that it almost blinds you with love.”

“A brilliant exploration of human darkness, delusion, and desire for redemption.”