Sleep in Me

Against the backdrop of his teenage sister{u2019}s car accident{u2014}in which a dump truck filled with sand slammed into the small car carrying her and her friends{u2014}Jon Pineda chronicles his sister Rica{u2019}s sudden transformation from a vibrant high school cheerleader to a girl wheelchair-bound and unable to talk. For the next five years of her life, her only ability to communicate was through her rudimentary use of sign language. This is his coming-of-age memoir of the boy haunted by family tragedy.