In Corliss, New Jersey, the foundry still burns the night sky red. On Miller Avenue, Sam Kowalski and Veronica Halloran grew up side by side—two kids nothing
could pull apart, not the music turned up too loud, not the dreams too big for a town that keeps getting smaller.

Then one morning Sam knocks on the Hallorans' door and finds the house empty.
Ronnie is gone. No note. No goodbye.

From the summer of 1976 to the hard winters of the Reagan years, "Miller Avenue" traces a friendship stronger than blood: the promises kids make, the mills that close, the leavings you can't forgive and the ones you finally understand. A luminous, heartbreaking novel about what stays when everything else goes—and about the song you hear one day, somewhere down the road, that brings a whole youth rushing back.