![]() ![]() "Lyrical and profoundly affecting." ( Kirkus starred review) "Nothing short of exquisite." ( PopSugar) "I haven't been so dazzled by a YA in ages." (Jandy Nelson, author of I'll Give You the Sun via SLJ) She explores the hard and beautiful places loss can take us and honors those who hold us tightly when the current wants to tug us out to sea. Or maybe - maybe, maybe, maybe - there's a third way Biz just can't see yet.ĭebut author Helena Fox tells a story about love and grief, about inter-generational mental illness, and how living with it is both a bridge to someone loved and lost and, also, a chasm. Might it be easier, better, sweeter to float all the way away? Or maybe stay a little longer, find her father, bring him back to her. Dad disappears and with him, all comfort. And Biz knows how to float, right there on the surface - normal, okay, regular, fine.īut after what happens on the beach - first in the ocean, and then in the sand - the tethers that hold Biz steady come undone. And she doesn't tell anyone about her dad. Not about her dark, runaway thoughts, not about kissing Grace or noticing Jasper, the new boy. And she has her dad, who tells her about the little kid she was, and who shouldn't be here but is. ![]() She has her people, her posse, her mom, and the twins. Will take your breath away." (Kathleen Glasgow, author of Girl in Pieces )Ī stunningly gorgeous and deeply hopeful portrayal of living with mental illness and grief, from an exceptional new voice.īiz knows how to float. A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best of the Year ![]()
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