Tiffany Hunter's mother left, she and her father don't exactly get along and she is wondering what is going on with her new, non-Native boyfriend. She's too busy with her own life to pay attention to the stranger who is staying in their basement for a while. He sleeps all day, doesn't eat meals with...
n two alternating narratives we are introduced to Tiffany, a typical teenage girl, and Pierre, a mysterious "European" traveler. The first half of the book is dominated by Tiffany's point of view; this gives it an uneven feel since it is almost entirely quotidian matter about school, her boyfriend, ...