"Love captures Paul Finley in, of all places, his own bedroom, literally waking him from his dreams. The night he discovers Laura Pettit standing at his windowsill. Paul is eleven years old, a boy naturally inclined toward seriousness, precociously adept at the art of watching the world without being watched. Laura is twenty-two, a fiercely passionate and independent poet already experiencing the first flickers of fame."--Jacket.