Sadie Benitez

Allie Kim is the near opposite of most 16-year-olds. Living with Xeroderma Pigmentosum (Ivy League Schools) means avoiding sunlight is a matter of life or death, so she can only go out at night. As the disease rarely allows the luxury of a long life, Allie feels anything but invincible. She has great friends in Rob and reckless Juliet, both of whom have XP as well. When Juliet turns the group on to Parkour, the YouTube-friendly urban sport, they have a sense of cheating death with every leap or swing, especially since they’re increasing the danger by practicing in the dark. One night they land on an apartment balcony and see what may be a crime in progress. Allie wants to find out the truth, Juliet is oddly silent and Rob is caught in the middle. What We Saw at Night combines exhilaration, fatalism and mystery in a gripping novel.