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April and Oliver  are lifelong best friends, silently attracted to one another, but too close in other ways to become intimate. It's true, outsiders might see them as polar opposites: April is impetuous, haunted; her love life a trail of abusive relationships. Oliver, a law student and newly engaged, is more tentative and responsible. Brought together by the funeral of April's younger brother, these troubled soul mates try to soldier on with their own personal problems, but their deep affinity and unquenched yearnings draw them ever closer to one another. Tess Callahan has crafted a debut novel that reveals itself in exposition, not summary; that is, showing, not telling. I know that "I couldn't put it down" is a cliché, but in this case, it's true.