What happens when everything youโve got to give isnโt enough to save someone you love? This transformative portrayal of โinjustice, frustration, and rage is wrenching and difficult to forgetโ (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Itโs Maine. Itโs winter. And itโs FREEZING STINKINโ COLD! Dinah is wildly worried about her best friend, Skint. He wonโt wear a coat. Refuses to wear a coat. Itโs twelve degrees out, and he wonโt wear a coat. So Dinahโs going to figure out how to help. Thatโs what Dinah doesโshe helps. But sheโs too busy trying to help to notice that sometimes, sheโs doing more harm than good. Seeing the trees instead of the forest? Thatโs Dinah.
And Skint isnโt going to be the one to tell her. Heโs a helper guy too. Heโs worried about a little boy whose dad wonโt let him visit his mom. Heโs worried about an elderly couple in a too-cold house down the road.
But the wedge between what drives Dinah and what concerns Skint is wide enough for a big old slab of ice. Because Skintโs own father is in trouble. Because Skintโs mother refuses to ask for help even though sheโs at her breaking point. And because Dinah might just decide toโฆhelp. She thinks sheโs cracking through a sheet of ice, but whatโs actually there is an entire iceberg.