New Year's Eve, 1985. While the rest of California counts down with champagne at the ready, Tulsi Dulari and Simon Ganfrey are staring down futures already forfeited. Tulsi-a withdrawn, shut-down biochem dropout-has been marooned behind the Pulmonary Ward's reception desk for months, her ambitions derailed by grief and inertia. Simon-high-strung, motor-mouthed, and chronically ill-has learned to treat every moment as borrowed. He takes what he can get...until he doesn't. When Simon flatlines during Tulsi's night shift, she's pulled into post-resuscitation watch duty: a task meant to be temporary. Instead, the encounter sticks. What follows isn't friendship so much as a series of collisions: old scars traded like contraband-meals singed by both fury and overclocked ovens-laughter wagered in the face of loss. Neither of them has any talent for offering comfort, but they recognize in each other the same refusal to be pitied. Spanning one improbable year, The Things That Stay is a tragicomic novel about risky bets and reluctant grace, about the ferocious, absurd ways we cling to each other when there's nothing left to promise. When every step is taken in the shadow of death, why not take the scenic route together?

The year is 1965: a year thrumming with promise and hope and change all around the globe. But for two people, change seems out of the question. Their worlds are rigid, stuck, fixed—and completely contradictory to one another. Holly is a frazzled and reclusive mess from the wrong side of the tracks—well, the wrong side of everything, really—struggling to keep herself afloat as she copes with the loss of her nursing school scholarship two years before. Simon, on the other hand, is charming, arrogant, smart-mouthed and spoiled rotten—the only thing he has ever wanted for is a pair of proper lungs, as his own have been slowly ruined by the effects of Cystic Fibrosis. When Holly joins a peculiar non-profit agency in hope for nursing experience, their worlds are suddenly conjoined a little too close for comfort. Through bickering, old maps, collect calls and a great many letters, Holly and Simon are intertwined in a journey to find a future they never knew existed, suspended in the transience of yesterday, today and tomorrow.

For Kerza Freiborne, the war began with fire and ended in ice. But Ally bombs and a march through frozen fields did not come first: the war had a precursor that brought it to her doorstep in the shape of hunched shoulders, dirt-smudged cheeks and a gold star sewn to the breast of a sweater. A fugitive Jew in the heart of Nazi Germany is not a thing that can be simply swept beneath a rug, and thusly, it is the attic of Kerza's family in which the traumatized, stammering boy must take shelter. With the battlefield drawing closer and a country's old prejudice reaching a boiling point, the line between us and them is blurred and the duplicity of human nature becomes clearer every day. But for better or worse, this Jew and German are the most important people in each others lives, and everything they thought they understood of their world will soon change forever.

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