How It Feels to Float

Helena Fox''s stunning and critically-acclaimed debut about love, loss, grieving, and living with mental illness, now in paperback

Biz knows how to float. She has her people, her posse, her mom and the twins. She has Grace. And she has her dad, who tells her about the little kid she was, and who shouldn''t be here but is. So Biz doesn''t tell anyone anything--not about her dark, runaway thoughts, not about kissing Grace or noticing Jasper, the new boy. And not about seeing her dad. Because her dad died when she was seven. So Biz floats, right there on the surface--normal okay regular fine.
     But after what happens on the beach, the tethers that hold Biz steady come undone. Her dad disappears, and with him, all comfort. It might be easier, better, sweeter to float all the way away? Or maybe stay a little longer, find her father, bring him back to her. Or maybe--maybe maybe maybe--there''s a third way Biz just can''t see yet.
     Debut author Helena Fox tells a story about love, grief, and inter-generational mental illness, exploring the hard and beautiful places loss can take us, and honoring those who hold us tightly when the current wants to tug us out to sea.