In the early 1980s, living in rural poverty in one of the wealthiest counties in Pennsylvania, Flora McDermott has found an epic love. Everett Finn has that and "Black Irish and " look, with the black black bottom-of-the-abyss hair and contrasting eyes of sky. When she sits in his high school English class, Flora can think of little else. She has no choice; her pens are possessed; she has to flood him with love notes and poetry. After all, one never knows what could happen in life. He just may give in to her if she perseveres. A coming-of-age story with a bite, Flora's sojourn is of the rudiments that persist in the human heart, dreams, memory, love, and family, and the ever-mysterious and mutable definition of self.