Carolyn Mullen

The touching story of a teenager who cannot feel and has nothing to live for until he learns to find meaning through love and loss.

James struggles to chose between the love from his boyfriend, or the only family he has left. After his boyfriend encourages him to stand up for himself, he comes out to his conservative mother. His mother, a widow and devout Catholic, is hellbent on keeping her family righteous and pure as to be together in the afterlife. Thinking she can rid him of this illness, James is forced into shock therapy, leaving him conflicted, full of self hatred and a shell of his former self.