After deciding to leave home to attend New York University and be near the boy she likes, eighteen-year-old Sydney Holman learns that her long-absent father is schizophrenic and she may be, too.
When Sydney Holman announces that she has decided to attend NYU, her overprotective mom is devastated. Her decision means she will be living in the Big City instead of commuting to nearby Rutgers like her mom had hoped. It also means she'll be close to off-limits but dreamy Grayson, a guitar prodigy who is going to Juilliard in the fall. Then Sydney discovers a world-changing truth about her father, who left when she was little due to a drug addiction: he has schizophrenia and is currently living on the streets of New York City. Should she stay close to home so her mom can watch over her, or follow the desire to take risks and discover her true self? -- adapted from jacket