First published 2016
Solomon Reed has spent three years inside his house, never venturing beyond the front door. The sixteen-year-old's agoraphobia keeps him safe from the outside world, and he's content with this arrangement. Lisa Praytor has different plans. She needs a standout psychology project to secure her spot in her second-choice college program. Solomon becomes her target. Lisa decides she can cure his condition and writes her way into his isolated world. She brings along Clark, her boyfriend, expecting a straightforward case study. The three teenagers form an unlikely friendship that surprises them all. Solomon finds himself drawn to Clark in ways he never anticipated. Lisa discovers that fixing people isn't as simple as her textbooks suggested. As their relationships deepen and shift, the carefully constructed barriers each teenager has built begin to crumble. The friendship that brought them together now threatens to tear them apart.
Genres: coming-of-age, mental-illness, contemporary, young-adult
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
256 pages · Hardcover · Dial Books
Content warnings: anxiety, mental-illness