One day, high schooler Sally Forrest cuts contact with her five best friends and refused to speak to them or acknowledge them in the hallway. The tight-knit group, now a member down, called themselves “The Gunners,” inspired by the name on the letterbox of an abandoned house they commandeered as their clubhouse headquarters—the place where they invented jokes and games and secret languages, bad-mouthed their parents, plotted against bullies, bickered, made up, and dreamed of the lives they would one day live far from their Buffalo. When Sally dies 15 years later, the group reunites for her funeral (reminiscent of The Big Chill) and grapple with losing her a second time. This story examines how the secrets held and harbored by friends, and the defining relationships of childhood and adolescence, never fully leave us.
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