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How It Feels to Float

How It Feels to Float

How It Feels to Float Hardback - 2019

by Helena Fox

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In her mesmerizing, radiant debut, Fox tells a story about love and grief, family and friendship, inter-generational mental illness, and how living with it is both a bridge to someone loved and lost and, also, a chasm. "Profoundly moving...Will take your breath away."--Kathleen Glasgow, author of "Girl in Pieces."

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Penguin Young Readers Group, 2019. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title How It Feels to Float
  • Author Helena Fox
  • Binding Hardback
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Young Readers Group
  • Publication date 2019
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0525554297I3N10
  • ISBN 9780525554295 / 0525554297
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 5.6 x 1.4 in (23.37 x 14.22 x 3.56 cm)
  • Age range 14 to UP years
  • Grade levels 9 - UP
  • Reading level 630
  • Category Young Adult Fiction
  • Library of Congress subjects Grief, Mental illness
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2018058425
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best of the Year

"Profoundly moving . . . Will take your breath away." --Kathleen Glasgow, author of Girl in Pieces

A stunningly gorgeous and deeply hopeful portrayal of living with mental illness and grief, from an exceptional new voice.

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 she doesn't tell anyone about her dad. Because her dad died when she was seven. And Biz knows how to float, right there on the surface--normal okay regular fine.

But after what happens on the beach--first in the ocean, and then in the sand--the tethers that hold Biz steady come undone. 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 and grief, about inter-generational mental illness, and how living with it is both a bridge to someone loved and lost and, also, a chasm. She explores the hard and beautiful places loss can take us, and honors those who hold us tightly when the current wants to tug us out to sea.

"Give this to all [your] friends immediately." --Cosmopolitan.com
"I haven't been so dazzled by a YA in ages." --Jandy Nelson, author of I'll Give You the Sun (via SLJ)
"Mesmerizing and timely." --Bustle
"Nothing short of exquisite." --PopSugar
"Immensely satisfying" --Girls' Life
* "Lyrical and profoundly affecting." --Kirkus (starred review)
* "Masterful...Just beautiful." --Booklist (starred review)
* "Intimate...Unexpected." --PW (starred review)
* "Fox writes with superb understanding and tenderness." --BCCB (starred review)
* "Frank [and] beautifully crafted." --BookPage (starred review)
"Deeply moving...A story of hope." --Common Sense Media
"This book will explode you into atoms." --Margo Lanagan, author of Tender Morsels
"Helena Fox's novel delivers. Read it." --Cath Crowley, author of Words in Deep Blue
"This is not a book; it is a work of art." --Kerry Kletter, author of The First Time She Drowned
"Perfect...Readers will be deeply moved." --Books+Publishing

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Citations

  • Booklist, 04/01/2019, Page 65
  • Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 05/01/2019, Page 0
  • Horn Book Magazine, 07/01/2019, Page 128
  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 07/01/2019, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 03/15/2019, Page 138
  • Publishers Weekly, 04/08/2019, Page 0
  • School Library Journal, 05/01/2019, Page 104
  • Voice of Youth Advocates, 04/01/2019, Page 0

About the author

Helena Fox lives in Wollongong, Australia, where she runs creative writing workshops for young people. She's a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina. How It Feels to Float is her debut novel. She can be found at www.helenafoxauthor.com

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