"I have spent years going over our past, untangling memories from dreams, trying to pinpoint the exact moment when fate sealed. The easiest place to start is with the most blatant mistake: our mother, Jenny, kept the matchbooks in the junk drawer." So begins Andrea and her brother Delphie's story, a story of the light and darkness visited upon their lives by the flaring of one small flame. "It's clear to me that Courtney Elizabeth Mauk is going to be an important new voice of her generation." Dan Chaon, author of Await Your Reply and Stay Awake