I'll Always Miss You

Isa Zaman might forgive his parents for taking in a friend's son if only he wasn't the most boring teenager in the universe. Macklin Mackie Cormack's only interests are reading and the outdoors. Yeah right. Isa's convinced Mackie is either a pyro or a klepto. Plus as a white kid Mackie looks ridiculous in the Zamans' Arab American household. Forced to share a bedroom the boys keep butting heads until an absurd fight finally breaks the tension between them. Isa's just starting to figure life out: this new houseguest his cultural identity school and even girls when the entire family is uprooted from their home for reasons Isa can't understand. They move from their tiny city apartment to a giant old house in a small town hours away from everything he's ever known. Oh and the new house? It's probably haunted or so says the blank-faced ten-year-old next door. As if things weren't weird enough Isa's friendship with Mackie suddenly takes a strange turn down a path Isa's not sure he's ready to follow. It turns out Mackie Cormack isn't nearly as boring as Isa once imagined.