by Ali Benjamin
First published 2015
Suzy stops speaking after her best friend drowns. Everyone calls it an accident, but Suzy knows better. She becomes convinced a rare jellyfish caused the death, not the drowning itself. While the world moves on around her, Suzy retreats into silence and begins researching jellyfish with obsessive focus. She develops an ambitious plan to prove her theory, one that would require her to travel across the world by herself. As Suzy prepares for this impossible journey, she must navigate her grief while discovering that wonder exists everywhere, including in the relationships closest to home. Her quest to understand death leads her toward unexpected possibilities for connection and healing.
Genres: fiction, literary-fiction, grief, coming-of-age, contemporary, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
352 pages · Kindle Edition · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Content warnings: mental-illness