Alvie Fitz doesn’t fit in, and she doesn’t care. She’s spent years swallowing meds and bad advice from doctors and social workers If she can make it to her eighteenth birthday without any major mishaps, she’ll be legally emancipated. All she wants is to be left alone to spend time with her friend, Chance, the one-winged hawk at the zoo where she works. Then she meets Stanley, a boy who might be even stranger than she is. Her past stalks her with every step, and it has sharp teeth. But if she can find the strength to face the enemy inside her, maybe she’ll have a chance at happiness after all.