Sometimes the Past is the Only Way Home
From award-winning author, Cher Gatto, comes a soul-searching novel of love, resilience, and what it means to be alive. An orphan's desperate search for his absent father brings him to the outer edge of his own sanity. Justin has a dangerous gift. He "sees" other people's memories when he draws. In foster care, he stopped drawing because it was becoming an obsession. Unable to find his absent father and blamed for an assault on the girl he loves, Justin is thrown into Regent, a psychiatric boarding school for delinquent teens. When his treatment begins, he is convinced the doctor is messing with his mind because his "new" friends describe a past he doesn't remember-a wealthy family, a forbidden love story, and even a joint suicide attempt-all of which he was somehow a part. Justin's gift becomes the only way to reveal the truth. But if he uses it once more to unlock his own past, he might also unleash a devastating future.