After a school shooting leaves Oliver Loving in a coma for nine years, new diagnostic technology promises to reveal if he has been sentient all these years. The maddening questions that still swirl around the shooting--what drove Hector, why did he select the victims he did--could finally become clear. A profoundly moving mediation on the transformative power of grief and love, a slyly funny and affectionate look at the idiosyncrasies of family, and an emotionally-charged page-turner.