Slow and small in wonderful ways. Documents all of the unique embarrassments of adolescence and the revelations that follow loss. June, the narrator, irked me for a while, but I thinks that is by design. She's a feasible 14-year-old, complete with her quick judgments of others and deep, blinding loyalty to her Uncle Finn. But while sometimes the adult reader can see what she doesn't (about AIDS, art, her parents, etc.), June redeems herself with an eye for the subtle disappointments and pleasures of living that adults may no longer notice.