After her mother accidentally drowns while sleepwalking, Elvis Babbitt, who has a gift for remembering scientific facts, tries to come to terms with the circumstances of her mother's death and the bizarre behaviors of her sister and grieving father.

A debut novel by an award-winning writer follows the darkly comic experiences of a precocious 12-year-old girl named Elvis who worries about her troubled family and tries to figure out her place in the world in the aftermath of her mother's accidental death. Original.