Buxbaum, Julie

Kit, biracial, a popular girl in school but dealing with the death of her father; David, is relatively socially isolated, functionally autistic. He and Kit eat together at the same table one day and develop a poignant connection - David, because of the way his brain works, deals in blunt honestly and may help Kit find out how her dad's tragic car accident occurred.

When an unlikely friendship is sparked between relatively popular Kit Lowell and socially isolated David Drucker, Kit asks David for his help figuring out the how and why of her father's tragic car accident.

Sixteen-year old Jessie, still grieving over her mother's death, must move from Chicago to "The Valley," with a new stepfamily but no new friends until an anonymous fellow student emails and offers to help her navigate the school's treacherous social waters.

Sixteen-year old Jessie, still grieving over her mother's death, must move from Chicago to "The Valley," with a new stepfamily but no new friends until an anonymous fellow student emails and offers to help her navigate the school's treacherous social waters.

When an unlikely friendship is sparked between relatively popular Kit Lowell and socially isolated David Drucker, Kit asks David for his help figuring out the how and why of her father's tragic car accident.

Sixteen-year old Jessie, still grieving over her mother's death, must move from Chicago to "The Valley," with a new stepfamily but no new friends until an anonymous fellow student emails and offers to help her navigate the school's treacherous social waters.

Twenty-nine-year-old successful Manhattan attorney Emily Haxby finds her life unraveling and must figure out a way to put it back on track after she breaks up with her boyfriend, realizes her grandfather has Alzheimer's, and is assigned to a case in which she knows the company she is representing is polluting the environment.

Rushing to assist the family of her murdered best friend, Ellie consoles reclusive widower Greg and nurtures eight-year-old Lucy, who has stopped speaking.