When I was the greatest, came out in 2014 and the book's teenage narrator, Ally, has an estranged father who's cycled in and out of jail. In your 2016 book, Ghost, which is the first book in the four-part track series, Castle Crenshaw's father tries to kill him and his mother and then is also in jail. And you've stated that in all of your novels, you borrow liberally from reality, fictionalizing your own life and the lives of friends and family.