Nick Narigon's debut novel is a love note to '90s teenage angst. It's 1996 and Robert Longley's dreams are dead. The transition from high school all-star to a young adult nobody is an emotional battle that takes Robert on a journey from his home in rural Iowa to the hard streets of New York City. In a haze of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, Robert's innocence is lost. Now the young man is dead, and his friends and family are left to ask the question, "Why?" This poetically dark take on the coming-of-age tale portrays the idyllic '90s generation that got swallowed up once the chaos of the internet age was triggered.