When her grandmother's diagnosis brings the Holowitz family back to the lonely town of Hawkins, seventeen-year-old Andie is forced to leave behind her shimmering California world. In Hawkins, the sky is quieter, the nights colder, and the past impossible to outrun. But with her cousin Dustin by her side and an unexpectedly gentle Steve Harrington crossing her path-Andie begins to unspool the complicated ties between love, grief, and all the small moments that keep a family together.