On the surface, Ramiro Lopez and Jake Upthegrove couldn't live more different li
ves. Ram is Mexican-American, lives in the poor section of town, and is doing hi
s best to keep his mother sane while his brother fights off a drug-induced coma.
Jake is a WASP who drives a nice car, lives in a mansion, and has a mother who
drinks a bit too much and a step-father who cheats on her. But there is one poin
t, one issue, where their lives are exactly the same; their fathers walked out o
n them when they were just young boys. And at this convergence, Ram and Jake see
how everything in their lives is just a little bit similar, because they both b
lame everything that goes wrong on the one thing they actually have in common. A
heartfelt novel from an award-winning author.
