“The tomboy narrator of this funny, sad, ultimately disturbing novel is wise and compassionate beyond her years, like Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird. And she’s as cynical as The Catcher in the Rye’s Holden Caulfield. But Maggie is very much her own person―all six of them.” ―Carol Peace, People Being the daughter of the owner of a successful candy factory and living in a house with its own beach, Maggie should be living a sweet life. But after an explosive incident at school with her teacher, this spirited, funny, and troubled adolescent is just trying to make it through a long summer at home―while feeling a long hidden secret make its way to the surface.