Charm & Strange: A Novel

The 2014 Winner of the William C. Morris Award. Andrew Winston Winters is at war with himself. He exists as two parts: Win, the lonely teenager exiled to a remote Vermont boarding school following a family tragedy, who isolates himself from his classmates; and Drew, the angry young boy with violent impulses. Drew carries the memory of a fateful summer spent with his brother and teenage cousins, an experience marked by a secret so severe it compelled three children to commit an unspeakable act. During one night at a party deep in the New England woods, Andrew confronts both the pain of his past and his present isolation. Before dawn, he must choose between surrendering to the darkness within his mind or accepting a fundamental truth: that choosing to live means far more than simply not dying.