Description
Within the winter, life in McKinley, Minnesota, revolves across the rinks, where kids play hockey and grown-usaskate to scratchy phonograph records. Then, the year Marsh and his very best friend, Willy, are twelve, Carl appears on the rink, wearing a battered, old leather flight jacket and doing a extraordinary dance that may be both beautiful and disturbing to observe.
It’s Marsh and Willy who discover the terrible secret at the back of Carl’s dance, a secret that threatens to destroy him. But a small miracle occurs, and Carl’s dance becomes a fragile and tentative expression of hope and the healing power of love.