Lydia has created a hard shell around herself after her mother died while running away from the family. Billie is the positive person who even after being struck down over and over again by life, having a grandmother who ignores him and an uncle who never reaches out to him, he continues to try to find agency. They are both good narrators with strong unique voices. The story is told in alternating chapters from Billie and Lydia’s points of view. They build a support system and as the world around them gets more confusing with extremes of weather and paranormal activity, their strength in numbers becomes the only thing they can depend on. Eventually Lydia opens up and they share their pain: both are from broken homes and families who are struggling financially. Billie’s eternal optimism will not be beat and he continues to try to make a new friend. Billie senses a connection and sits across from Lydia at free breakfast on the first day of school. But these are the surface aspects that any miscreant would use to torment a person.ĭig a little deeper and these two have a lot more in common that each would think. Each are targets of the Neanderthal bullies at the school Lydia because she is Filipino and Billie because his uncle is a drug-addicted rock star.
This heightens the rivalry instead of putting it to rest, but it does allow the two social outsiders to meet. With an economy frozen by the shuttered lumber industry, the two area high schools are forced to be combined. Billie and Lydia are high school seniors on the depressed coast of Washington.
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