Gwen Lewis seems to lead the perfect life in Manhattan, with the perfect job, the perfect apartment, and the perfect boyfriend, until she meets Gideon Wolkowitz, an impoverished puppeteer who teaches Gwen about love, life, and heartache.
Fifteen-year-old Celia Bonnet, living with her unmarried mother and other single-parent families on a compound north of the Spanish Catalan border, learns her mother's boyfriend sexually assaulted her nine-year-old adopted brother, Morgan, and decides to run away to London where she hopes to meet her biological father, whom she knows little about.
