Meet Me Here

In a single nightgraduation nightThomas has to decide: do what everyone has always expected of him, or forge an entirely new path? Bryan Blisss absorbing examination of one boy struggling with expectations and realities will appeal to readers of Sara Zarr and Chris Crutcher.Thomas is supposed to leave for the Army in the morning. His father was Army. His brother, Jake, is Armyis a hero, even, with the medals to prove it. Everyone expects Thomas to follow in that fine tradition. But Jake came back from overseas a completely different person, and that has shaken Thomass certainty about his own future. And so when his long-estranged friend Mallory suggests one last night of adventure, Thomas takes her up on the distraction. Over the course of this single night, Thomas will lose, find, resolve, doubt, drive, explore, and leap off a bridge. Hell also face the truth of his brothers post-traumatic stress disorder and of his own courage. In Bryan Blisss deft hands, graduation night becomes a night to find yourself, to find each other, to find a path, and to know that you always have a placeand peopleto come back to.