This is a truth about growing up.
Once in your life, sometime after your first memory but before you can drive a car, something is going to happen to you that doesnât happen to anyone else you know. It might be something good. It might be something bad, or special, or funny, or shocking.
For Millie, itâs something really sad. Lolo, her neighborsâ infant daughter, diesâunexpectedly, suddenly, inexplicablyâon the night Millie babysits.
Thereâs nothing she could have done. Thereâs nothing she can do now. So how does she go on?
She does what youâll do. She finds her way.
This poignant and profound coming-of-age story portrays a tragic experience of responsibility and its poisonous flip side: guilt. Cathartic and important, itâs an honest and empathetic portrait of a girl at her most vulnerableâa mess of grief,
love, and ultimately, acceptanceâwho must reckon with those most difficult of demons: death ⌠and life.