THE WHOLE WORLD
a novel by Emily Winslow
Delacorte Press, May 2010

It happened just around what would have been Thanksgiving. Home was, no doubt, drenched in crackling, flashy leaves. England does the season differently. Students at Cambridge are discouraged from having cars, so autumn comes with a flurry of bicycles. Leaves barely bother to brown before falling listlessly--the bikes make up for that in their number, variety, and motion. They swirl everywhere, as if blown into little cyclones by the wind.