A Summer of Almost Touching, Almost Leaving

This book is also known as Memoir, and is adapted from real events in high school.

Some answers remain forever in the dawn of youth, just before the light breaks.

I keep thinking how wonderful it would have been if I’d held on to that hand back then.

Xu Youyu will never forget that dusk, when the sky was not yet dark. Zhou Yu’s hand hovered in a patch of light reflected off the elevator mirror, a burn scar on his index knuckle like a piece of amber set solid. It was nineteen days before the college entrance exams. Blue ink and the scent of locust blossoms mingled in the enclosed space, and the moment she slapped his hand away, the two strawberry-patterned hair ties that had bumped together suddenly fell silent.