New York & Boston: Little Brown / Back Bay Books, (2010). First edition - The author's highly praised first novel, issued as a trade paperback original, an uncommon coming-of-age story - "a dispatch from the teenage wasteland of a juvenile detention center, fervidly delivered by Emma Rathbone's irreverent, perceptive, and achingly funny young hero, Jacob Higgins. He refuses to succumb to the numbness and absurdity of his incarceration, in turn holding a jagged mirror shard to adolescence, failed relationships, and life in modern America. A voice that is at once heartbreaking and hilarious, and startlingly true."
(author Lydia Peelle) 206 pp.