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Young adult novel about trust, loyalty, friendship, and love.

Dante can swim, Ari cannot. Dante is confident, knows how to express his thoughts and is not afraid to do so. Ari finds it difficult to find the right words and is torn by self-doubt. Dante thinks a lot about poetry and painting. Ari thinks a lot about his older brother, who is sitting down. It would seem that Dante, with his unique vision of the world, is the last person who could break through the wall that Ari has built around him . The boys read together, think aloud, dream, and laugh. They teach each other new words and begin to rethink life. And together they find out that the universe is a huge and complex thing."

A master of the artistic word, prose writer Benjamin Alire Saenz insightfully depicts the story of two boys on the path of growing up and learning about themselves. The book takes place in the late 80s in El Paso, Texas, near the US-Mexico border.