Everything Must Go — Elizabeth Flock

With deceptive simplicity, New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Flock brings Henry Powell's poignantly familiar story to life; he is the friend we have all known, living in a family curiously similar to our own. Through Flock's deft, compassionate hand, we ultimately understand Henry, and how time can become such a peculiar character in all our lives -- a constant companion that is both friend and foe.

Compared to some, Henry Powell's life has been lucky, if inauspicious. Yet Henry is impossibly stuck, unable to reconcile the dreams and expectations of his promising youth with the reality of the unassuming, vaguely dissatisfied clothing store clerk he has become.

As weeks turn into months and months into years, the shop becomes Henry's only window to the world, where he marks time by the milestones of his former classmates' lives. But his day-to-day measured existence inadvertently conceals a fracture that has caused the disintegration of his family, one that will ultimately reveal the Henry that might have been.