A darkly funny and spectacularly original exploration of friendship, goodbyes--and spontaneous combustion. Mara Carlyle's senior year is going as normally as could be expected-- until fellow senior Katelyn Ogden explodes during third period pre-calc. Katelyn is the first, but she won't be the last senior to blow up without warning or explanation. With the whole country watching, the FBI soon rolls into Mara's suburban New Jersey hometown and the search is on for answers. Mara narrates the end of their world as she knows it while trying to make it to graduation in one piece.

Young adult fiction.