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Five children meet on the first day of kindergarten. Inside the years that follow, they become friends and much more than friends. Alongside one another, they'll find power, meet challenges, face life's escapades, endure reduction, face stark realities, and start their hearts. With this moving novel, number one New York Times best-selling writer Danielle Metal traces their unforgettable journey - full of tests and tests - as three guys and two women discover the vital bonds that can last a lifetime. Gabby, Billy, Izzie, Andy, and Sean - each bursting with their own personality, strikingly different looks and abilities, in sports, science, and the arts. Each drawn by the mysterious spark of interconnection that happens to the young. At the exclusive Atwood University, on a smart Sept day, starting in kindergarten, they become an inseparable group known to outsiders as the best Five. With this rarefied world, five family members grow deeper, and five children bloom beside one another, unaware of the storms gathering around them. As they switch from grade-schoolers to teens, seemingly perfect lives are buffeted by unraveling family members, regrettable missteps, and loss and victories great and small. And, one by one, they turn back to the best Five to get back their footing and their continuous course. But as they emerge from Atwood and enter into the college years, the way forwards is neither safe nor clear. As their lives split and diverge, the challenges and hazards become increased, the loss sharper, and the right pathways harder to choose, in a voyage of friendship, success, and love. In what may be her most complex and psychologically powerful novel yet, Danielle Metal instructs a heart-wrenching, ultimately triumphant report that spans decades, weaves mutually a vivid solid of character types, and catches the challenges we face in life - sometimes, if we're lucky, with a pal permanently by our part.
