Cassandra Williams is twelve; her little brother Wayne is seven. One day, when they're alone together, there's an accident and Wayne is lost forever. Though his body is never recovered, their mother can't stop searching. How do you grieve an absence? And how does it feel? A bold exploration of memory and mourning that twists unexpectedly into a masterful story of mistaken identity, slippery reality and black experience. A New York Times Book of the Year.