"Trey Burnes grew up living upstairs from a funeral home run by his strange and sometimes frightening parents. Now 17, he's locked up on an adolescent psychiatric ward, where he tries to remember an often traumatic past--including, perhaps, an attempt on his life. As Trey relives a weird and shadowed childhood, lit by moments of love and grace, he struggles to come to terms with the past and imagine how--or whether--he can return to the world"--