Bones of a Saint reads like a dream—I found myself muttering the word ‘wow’ over and over as I read. My favorite stories are coming-of-age ones that find a new way into the teenage struggle, a new lens through which to view the fight for one’s innocence against the adult world’s corruption and chaos. Bones of a Saint is exactly that, but there’s something else—a grittiness and an honesty that earns the reader’s trust from page one. It’s like nothing I’ve read in years.