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Synopsis
T. LILLIAN DECKER HAS A TWELVE-YEAR PLAN... ...avoid stress, drugs, alcohol and boyfriends, and take regular psych quizzes to see if she's developing schizophrenia.
Genetics are not on Lily's side. When she was seven, her mother--who had paranoid schizophrenia--tried to kill her. And a family secret has revealed that Lily's odds are even worse than she thought. Still, there's a chance to avoid triggering the mental health condition, if Lily can live a careful life from ages eighteen to thirty, when schizophrenia most commonly manifests.
But when a newspaper internship results in Lily witnessing an elephant try to kill her calf, Lily can't abandon the story or the calf. With the calf in danger of dying from grief, Lily must choose whether to risk everything--including her sanity and first love--on a desperate road trip to save both their lives.