You are alone in the room, and you hear someone whisper your name. At some time, the unexplained happens to us all, just as it happens to the characters in these stories. Meet Kenton, who is in the midst of a boring babysitting job, when the unthinkable happens. See how Aidan's life is changed forever when he surfs the Net one lonely evening. She's like that, like a half-deflated balloon.
Nothing is good.
The place the paperboy leaves the paper, the check-out system at the public library, the woman at work who used to be her friend until she got so snobby, the way the city prunes the boulevard trees. Nothing is ever really right. The most not-right thing is me. I know what it is about. I've read the book and talked to the family counselor.