Fifteen-year-old Ilya arrives in Louisiana from his native Russia for what should be the adventure of his life: a year in America as an exchange student. The abundance of his new world is as hard to fathom as the relentless cheerfulness of his host parents. And Sadie, their beautiful and enigmatic daughter, has miraculously taken an interest in him. But Ilya is consumed by the fate of his older brother Vladimir, the magnetic rebel to Ilya's dutiful wunderkind, back in their tiny Russian hometown. When Ilya was tapped for the exchange, Vladimir disappeared into their town's seedy, drug-plagued underworld. And just before Ilya left, his brother was imprisoned for murder.
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Lydia Fitzpatrick.
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