From Printz Honor medal winner and National Book Award finalist Deb Caletti comes a fresh and luminous novel βabout love and loss, mental illness, and taking charge of oneβs own fateβ (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
There are many ways to be lost.
Sometimes people want to be lost. MadisonβMads to everyone who knows herβis trying her best to escape herself during one last summer away from a mother who needs more from her than she can give, and from a future that has been decided by everyone but her.
Sometimes the lost do the unimaginable, like the womanβthe bodyβMads collides with in the middle of the water on a traumatic morning that changes everything. And sometimes the lost are the ones left behind, like the son of the woman in the water, Billy Youngwolf Floyd.
Billy is struggling to find his way through each day in the shadow of grief. His one comfort is the map he carries in his pocket, out of his favorite book The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. When three lives (and one special, shared book) collide, strange things happen. Things like questions and coincidences and secrets, lots of secrets. Things like falling in love. But can two lost people telling so many lies find their way through tragedy to each otherβ¦and to solid ground?