Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for the best LGBT YA novel of 2017

An unforgettable story of two girls navigating the unknowable waters of identity, millennial anxiety, and first love, from the acclaimed author of The Mystery of Hollow Places.

In Savannah Espinoza's small New Mexico hometown, kids either flee after graduation or they're trapped there forever. Vanni never planned to get stuck--but that was before her father was diagnosed with Huntington's disease, leaving her and her mother to care for him.

Now she doesn't have much of a plan at all: living at home, working as a performing mermaid at a second-rate water park, distracting herself with one boy after another.

That changes the day she meets Leigh. Disillusioned with small-town life and looking for something greater, Leigh is not a "nice girl." She is unlike anyone Vanni has met, and a friend when Vanni desperately needs one. Soon enough, Leigh is much more than a friend.

But caring about another person threatens the walls Vanni has carefully constructed to protect herself and brings up the big questions she's hidden from for so long.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Balzer & Bray/Harperteen
Published: 10/17/2017
ISBN: 9780062373373
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.80w x 1.10d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2017
School Library Journal 09/01/2017
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2017 pg. 105
Booklist 10/01/2017 pg. 79
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 10/01/2017
Voice of Youth Advocates 10/01/2017 - Recommended - Better Than Most
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2018 - Superior,Well Above Average