Chapter 1- Joanne Stewarts Academy

-It was August, but the air bit at my skin like a winter chill, and I could feel pieces of myself slipping away with it. I wanted back my two-bed, one-bath apartment, with its cluttered walls and dirty tabletops. I wanted back the loudness of the city. I wanted back everything I took for granted just last week.-
Cami Sutton knew how to put a feeling into a song. Her guitar held every moment of her life in its strings, and when she's dropped off at Joanne Stewart's Boarding Academy, it takes on more songs than ever. In the fall of 1976, alongside her new dormmates, Cami learns to put those songs to good use.

An unflinching story of loss, creation, and romance through a teenage girl's desperate songs.