by Joan He
First published 2021
Cee opens her eyes on an abandoned island where she has spent three years without knowing how she arrived. Her memories have vanished except for one crucial detail: somewhere across the ocean lives her sister Kay. Meanwhile, sixteen-year-old Kasey Mizuhara inhabits an eco-city designed for climate refugees, where residents spend a third of their lives in stasis pods to minimize environmental damage. Kasey accepts this controlled existence, but her sister Celia rebelled against it. Three months ago, Celia took a boat into the ocean and never returned. Logic tells Kasey that Celia must be dead, yet she chooses to follow her sister's final journey. As Kasey retraces Celia's steps, she discovers that her popular, outgoing sister harbored unexpected secrets. But Kasey conceals something significant too. The investigation pulls her toward truths that will reshape everything she believed about her world and her sister.
Genres: science-fiction, dystopia, adventure, contemporary
Vibes: atmospheric, emotional, fast-paced, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, missing-persons, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Eco-City, Island
Period: 21st-Century
375 pages · Hardcover