Thao, Dustin

After Eric Ly's best friend and crush Daniel dies, he becomes wrapped up in imaginary scenarios he creates in his head that help him manage his grief. Then one day Haru, a boy he met last summer in Japan, comes into his life but no one can see him but Eric. Now Eric feels less alone and but soon the line between his imagination and what is real begins to blur and Eric is forced to face what has happened in his life.

Seventeen-year-old Julie fell in love with Sam the day she met him, and planned to attend college with him; but then Sam died. Getting rid of his things and trying to erase him from her life is not working, so, desperate to hear his voice one more time, Julie calls his cell phone. She expects to hear his voicemail--but then Sam answers, and suddenly their phones become the living connection between them, a connection Julie finds impossible to let go.

Eric, a lonely nineteen-year-old grappling with the loss of his best friend, retreats into his imagination and finds solace in a memory of a day spent with a boy named Haru, but Eric's imagination and reality blur together when he walks into a coffee shop and sees Haru.

Seventeen-year-old Julie fell in love with Sam the day she met him, and planned to attend college with him; but Sam died, and getting rid of his things, trying to erase him from her life is not working, so desperate to hear his voice one more time, Julie calls his cellphone expecting to hear his voicemail--but then Sam answers, and suddenly their cellphones become the living connection between them, a connection Julie finds impossible to let go.