Publisher's Synopsis
Juan has plans. He's going to get out of El Paso, Texas, on a basketball scholarship and make something of himself - or at least find something better than his mum Fabi's cruddy apartment, her string of loser boyfriends, and a dead dad. Basketball is going to be his ticket out, his ticket up. He just needs to make it happen. His best friend JD has plans, too. He's going to be a filmmaker one day, like Quentin Tarantino or Guillermo del Toro. He's got a camera and he's got passion - what else could he need? Fabi doesn't have a plan anymore. When you get pregnant at 16 and have been stuck bartending to make ends meet for the past 17 years, you realize plans don't always pan out, and that there are some things you just can't plan for. Like Juan's run-in with the police, like a sprained ankle, and a tanking math grade that will likely ruin his chance at a scholarship.
