An achingly beautiful and wickedly funny story of female friendship, betrayal, and a mysterious disappearance by the masterful author of "The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty". Pre-tech boom San Francisco finds its mirror in the changing lives of the teenage girls at the centre of this story of innocence lost, the pain of too much freedom, and the struggle to find one's authentic self. A masterpiece depiction of an inimitable place on the brink of radical transformation.