• Publication Season/Year: Fall 2009
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Release Date: October 19, 2009
• ISBN: 978-0547194899

Fifteen-year-old Blake has a girlfriend and a friend who’s a girl. One of them loves him; the other one needs him.

When he snapped a picture of a street person for his photography homework, Blake never dreamed that the woman in the photo was his friend Marissa’s long-lost meth addicted mom. Blake’s participation in the ensuing drama opens up a world of trouble, both for him and for Marissa. He spends the next few months trying to reconcile the conflicting roles of Boyfriend and Friend. His experiences range from the comic (surviving his dad’s birth control talk) to the tragic (a harrowing after-hours visit to the morgue).

In a tangle of life and death, love and loyalty, Blake will emerge with a more sharply defined snapshot of himself.

About the Author

Greetings from Oregon! I was born here, but spent eighteen years living in Los Angeles, so I am equally at home walking in the rain or sitting in traffic jams. I lived in northern England for a year while I was in college, so I learned to appreciate warm beer, milky tea, and Indian curries. Now when I travel, I am accompanied by my husband and son. We love meeting new people and exploring new places, but we’re always happy to come home to our two funny dogs.  Read more about how to book or contact L.K. Madigan.