In their first summer apart, Iph and Orr must learn to navigate their respective new spaces of music, romance, and sex work activism-and find each other to try to stop a transformation that could fracture their family forever. Orr, in the meantime, has escaped the camp and fallen in with The Furies, an all-girl punk band, and moves into the coat closet of their ramshackle pink house.
Enter George, a queer Robin Hood who swoops in on a bicycle, bow and arrow at the ready, offering Iph a place to hide out while she figures out how to track down Orr. Furious at his betrayal, Iph storms off and gets lost in the maze of Old Town.
When he brings Iph to a work gala in downtown Portland and breaks the news, Orr has already been sent away. But this summer, with their mother gone at an artist residency, their father decides it’s time for fifteen-year-old Orr to toughen up at a wilderness boot camp.
Inspired by the Greek myth of Iphigenia and the Grimm fairy tale “Brother and Sister,” Michelle Ruiz Keil’s second novel follows two siblings torn apart and struggling to find each other in early ’90s Portland.Īll her life, seventeen-year-old Iph has protected her sensitive younger brother, Orr.
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