Althea and Oliver

　　「嘿，光腳踩樂高和眼皮刺青，你會選擇哪一個？」，她問。
　　遲疑了一會，他答道：「刺青。我寧願選刺青。」

　　Althea和Oliver從六歲開始就是摯友，他們一起玩樂和念書，總是形影不離。Oliver有時半夜會溜到Althea過夜，他們的關係太過親暱，總是心照不宣。

　　但Oliver卻有嗜睡症，總是在下一刻就陷入昏睡，雖然Oliver母親帶了他去看醫生，但無奈總找不出病因。

　　當上高一的那一年，正值青春期的兩人開始有了變化，Althea發現自己早就深深愛上Oliver，但Oliver卻有太多考量不願意正視自己的心意，而在一場派對上，倆人接吻了，事後的兩人正處尷尬階段，Althea的魯莽行事更深深傷害了Oliver。

　　心碎的Oliver決定前往紐約念書，並決心找出嗜睡症的病因，總在一起的兩人，第一次嚐試分離的痛苦。當Althea下定決心要挽回Oliver時，從美國北卡到紐約市，這場旅途也將永遠改變倆人的命運，有時候，看似壞決定，也許是最棒的體驗。（文／博客來編譯）

　　Althea Carter and Oliver McKinley have been best friends since they were six; she's the fist-fighting instigator to his peacemaker, the artist whose vision balances his scientific bent. Now, as their junior year of high school comes to a close, Althea has begun to want something more than just best friendship. Oliver, for his part, simply wants life to go back to normal, but when he wakes up one morning with no memory of the past three weeks, he can't deny any longer that something is seriously wrong with him. And then Althea makes the worst bad decision ever, and her relationship with Oliver is shattered. He leaves town for a clinical study in New York, resolving to repair whatever is broken in his brain, while she gets into her battered Camry and drives up the coast after him, determined to make up for what she's done. Their journey will take them from the rooftops, keg parties, and all-ages shows of their North Carolina hometown to the pool halls, punk houses, and hospitals of New York City before they once more stand together and face their chances. Set in the DIY, mix tape, and zine culture of the mid-1990s, Cristina Moracho's whip-smart debut is an achingly real story about identity, illness, and love-and why bad decisions sometimes feel so good.