Wynwood Heights Park

Wynwood Heights Park is one of the most important locations in the novel. It is Quan's favorite park in the world. Whenever his home gets too violent and he feels the urge to run away and escape all his problems, he runs to the park and hides inside the huge plastic rocket ship to cry. Quan first meets Justyce on one of these days, when Justyce is escaping from his own troubles at home. The boys bond together in the rocket ship, talking and sharing stories. Quan continues to visit the rocket ship as he gets older, and it is here that he and Trey have their first conversation, which bonds them as friends. A few years later, Quan hears that the rocket ship was taken down after a man OD'd inside and a child found him. When Quan goes back at the end of the...