Pamela Johnston grew up in Boise, Idaho, graduated from the University of Idaho, and has an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a Ph.D. from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is associate professor of English at Texas Lutheran University and has published a number of short stories and nonfiction articles. This is her first novel.

A coming-of-age novel set in Boise, Idaho tells the story of the friendship between two teenaged girls.