Helena Fox tells a story about love and grief and family and friendship, about inter-generational mental illness, and how living with it is both a bridge to someone loved and lost and, also, a chasm. This is a mesmerizing, radiant debut, at once heart-rending, humorous, and impossible to put down. Or maybe–maybe maybe maybe–there’s a third way Biz just can’t see yet. It might 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. A stunning, gutting, deeply hopeful YA novel about love and loss and living with mental illness, from an exceptional new voiceīiz knows how to float.
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