A stunning debut novel about survival and friendship on the streets of New York City. Best friends Ray and José are not your typical teenagers. They've escaped foster care and juvenile detention centers to live on their own together in an abandoned building in Manhattan's Ten Mile River Park. With no use for school or families, street-smart José and bookish, introspective Ray have everything they need in each other. They are closer than brothers until they meet Trini. She's smart, beautiful, and confident, and they both fall for her immediately. As tension creeps into their relationship, Ray must struggle to find an identity separate from José and try to envision a future for himself beyond José and Ten Mile River. This is Paul Griffin's first novel, and his spare moving prose and uncanny ear for authentic dialogue is guaranteed to garner many fans.