Sometimes a book changes the way you see your world- opens a window on to something that, although right there all along, was previously unseen and in doing so shows you something true about the human condition. The world that opens up through Maddy, the narrator of On the Edge of Haight, is a mixture of striving for love, heartache, and questioning that makes us pivot from fear to a greater knowledge. On the Edge of Haight gives the reader the gift that great literature can give- it expands our capacity for caring. In addition, the writing is so crisp, masterful and consistently suspenseful, you won’t want put it down.