Meanwhile, Sylvia has just been accepted into Brown but is unsure if she should go she fears being separated from Autumn and also feels responsible for her Mamá, who is currently dying from a degenerative illness. Grieving the second anniversary of her mother’s death in a car accident, Autumn feels alienated from everyone around her except her secret girlfriend, Sylvia she’s worried about her older brother Tyler, a former drop-out who recently reenrolled in school but is nowhere to be found as the students file into the auditorium for the assembly. Immersed in track practice outside the school, Claire wonders what she will do after graduation and worries about being separated from her best friend and running partner, Chris. The novel’s four narrators – Claire, Tomas, Autumn, and Sylvia – each grapple with different fears as the start-of-term assembly begins. The student body of Opportunity High School in Opportunity, Alabama, prepares to return to school after the winter vacation.
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