First Love: Essays on Friendship -- Lilly Dancyger, Hardcover Children's Books - Young Adult Fiction With a lively combination of

With a lively combination of storytelling

the machine and I move as one

an abandoned infant is left to the care of a reclusive old man who has all but renounced the ways of the world

It is a gripping story of survival that asks fundamental questions about solitude

but which may ultimately set them free

First Love: Essays on Friendship -- Lilly Dancyger, Hardcover Children's Books - Young Adult Fiction With a lively combination ofLAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST A "vivid, thoughtful and nuanced collection of essays" (Associated Press) that treats women's friendships as the love stories they truly are, from the critically acclaimed author of Negative Space "A tender, unswerving homage to her found family, but also an insightful study of friendship as identity crafting." Elle Lilly Dancyger always thought of her closest friendships as great loves, complex and profound as any