"Ed Garrison has it all-a successful basketball career, a great relationship with his kid brother, the best dog a guy could ask for, and a supportive family. With a full-ride scholarship to Berkeley and summer vacation being the only thing standing between him and his future, Ed feels invincible. But as high school comes to an end, everything falls apart when his mother leaves his father for a woman 3,000 miles away; leaving behind a broken home in the wake of her absence and betrayal. Ed can do nothing while his humiliated father turns to liquor and work, and his brother throws away his future for illegal substances and crime. Not even the dog stuck around to watch. Soon, Ed is lashing out too: he turns down his scholarship and alienates himself from his fractured family to start a new life on his own. Alone and confused, Ed switches his major to journalism, trains for a marathon, and adopts a puppy, all in attempts to fill an unexplainable void in his life. But as the years pass and this new chapter is also riddled with distrust and regret, he fails to maintain the relationships that matter the most. Ed now has no choice but to reckon with his past mistakes as his dreams of a basketball career are shattered and his family continues to crumble"--