Newly graduated from high school, Mila has aged out of the foster care system. So when she’s offered a teaching job and a place to live on an isolated part of the Northern California coast, she accepts. The farm is a refuge, but it’s also haunted by the past. And Mila’s own memories are starting to rise to the surface.
Nina LaCour is the author of the widely acclaimed
Hold Still,
The Disenchantments,
Everything Leads to You, and the Michael L. Printz Award winner
We Are Okay. She is also the coauthor, with David Levithan, of
You Know Me Well. Formerly a bookseller and high school English teacher, she now writes and parents full-time. A San Francisco Bay Area native, Nina lives with her family in San Francisco, California.
YALSA Best Fiction of the Year • Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year • New York Public Library Best Books of the Year • Chicago Public Library Best Books of the Year • BuzzFeed Best of the Year“The sense of place is strong, and readers will be transported to the rocky, coastal hills shrouded in fog and full of secrets. . . . Mila’s journey to reclaim herself and find independence is tense and powerful.”
—Kirkus Reviews, starred review“LaCour presents a ghost story that is moving, unsettling, and full of atmospheric beauty with foggy, coastal air that hangs heavy in the pages . . . 100% LaCour at its core.”
—School Library Journal, starred review“LaCour’s portrait of a young woman yearning to belong and facing her past while navigating the liminal space between childhood and adulthood brims with tender moments and sensory details.”
—Publishers Weekly, starred review “LaCour’s writing is lyrical and atmospheric, both in capturing the natural setting of the story and in exploring the dark recesses of her characters’ grief, guilt, and psychic pain. . . . An empowering story of one young woman’s quest to rediscover the part of herself she has left behind and to become independent.”
—The Horn Book
