“Away” turns out to be a building site in Tennessee, peopled with strangers and the victims of a real disaster — a tornado. Harper is there to get a job done — to do some work, build some muscles from hefting power tools, to find anonymity and some space in her head, and to learn How To Build A House. But there’s a quiet Tennessee boy, for whose family they’re building the house, who has caught Harper’s attention. She hadn’t counted on falling into a family all over again. It’s not too a long way from building a house to the first splinters that fly away from the wrecking ball. Can she trust Teddy to be her all-the-time friend? Can she build a bridge to where she can reach out to her sister, Tess, again?
How do you build a house, anyway?
