What happens when everything you ve got to give isn t enough to save someone you love? This transformative portrayal of injustice, frustration, and rage is wrenching and difficult to forget ("Publishers Weekly," starred review).
It s Maine. It s winter. And it s FREEZING STINKIN COLD Dinah is wildly worried about her best friend, Skint. He won t wear a coat. Refuses to wear a coat. It s twelve degrees out, and he won t wear a coat. So Dinah s going to figure out how to help. That s what Dinah does she helps. But she s too busy trying to help to notice that sometimes, she s doing more harm than good. Seeing the trees instead of the forest? That s Dinah.
And Skint isn t going to be the one to tell her. He s a helper guy too. He s worried about a little boy whose dad won t let him visit his mom. He s worried about an elderly couple in a too-cold house down the road.
But the wedge between what drives Dinah and what concerns Skint is wide enough for a big old slab of ice. Because Skint s own father is in trouble. Because Skint s mother refuses to ask for help even though she s at her breaking point. And because Dinah might just decide to help. She thinks she s cracking through a sheet of ice, but what s actually there is an entire iceberg."