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Sixteen-year-old Jordan, a loner who's still unable to talk about his father's suicide three years after it occurred, develops an obsession with his mother's boyfriend's 1976 Corvette and sneaks it out for nighttime joy rides. In this spare, emotionally honest first-person narrative, Jordan gets caught up in a tangle of lies about the car but ultimately confronts his grief and anger.