From the author of Crossing―a National Book Award finalist―comes a dazzling tale full of fury, tenderness, longing, and lust.April 1995. Arsim is a twenty-two-year-old, recently married student at the
Amid the conflict and desolation of post-Communist Albania, teenage boys Agim and Bujar share restless dreams of escape. After Bujar's father dies and Agim's family discover him dressed in his mother'