* 'Fox writes with superb understanding and tenderness.' - BCCB (starred review) * 'Intimate.Unexpected.' - PW (starred review) * 'Masterful.Just beautiful.' - Booklist (starred review) * 'Lyrical and profoundly affecting.' - Kirkus (starred review) 'I haven't been so dazzled by a YA in ages.' -Jandy Nelson, author of I'll Give You the Sun (via SLJ) Debut author Helena Fox tells a story about love, grief, and inter-generational mental illness, exploring the hard and beautiful places loss can take us, and honoring 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.

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. Her dad disappears and, with him, all comfort. But after what happens on the beach, the tethers that hold Biz steady come undone. So Biz doesn't tell anyone anything-not about her dark, runaway thoughts, not about kissing Grace or noticing Jasper, the new boy. And she has her dad, who shouldn't be here but is. It tackles mental health, depression, sexual identity, and anxiety with beauty and empathy.' A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the YearĪ Chicago Public Library Best of the Best of the Year Biz knows how to float, right there on the surface-normal okay regular fine. Will take your breath away.' -Kathleen Glasgow, author of Girl in Pieces 'Give this to all your friends immediately. 'Profoundly moving.Will take your breath away.'-Kathleen Glasgow, author of 'Girl in Pieces.'īook Synopsis 'Profoundly moving. About the Book In her mesmerizing, radiant debut, Fox tells a story about love and grief, family and friendship, inter-generational mental illness, and how living with it is both a bridge to someone loved and lost and, also, a chasm.

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