In Book 5 of the Eli Diaries, Tommy knows everyone thinks he’s a pessimist, that he over-exaggerates and dramatizes even the littlest things. He doesn’t care. Those are the same people who think the world is an amusement park full of free candy. Tommy is a realist, and with Thanksgiving coming, he knows the odds of finding anything to be thankful for in this fragile world are slim to none. But as events begin to unfold around a mysterious night of which he has no memory, he finds himself daring to hope that this Thanksgiving might just turn out to be the exception to the rule. Maybe. Probably not.