As usual, Green has the YA mindset down pat. For too many OCD sufferers, particularly young ones, diagnosis and medication remain months or years away. I wish Green hadn't written Aza Holmes as already seeing a therapist and in possession of prescribed medication, because Aza's resistance to taking her meds makes her anxieties not just a curse, but also a choice.
Narrator's delivery distracted throughoutĪs someone with both first-hand and family experience of OCD, I found John Green's depiction of his main character's mental struggles disturbingly familiar. Or listen - because the narrator is wonderful. Anyhow, the bottom line is: read this book. But the parents aren't really the focus of the story (which I also love because it means I get to "be" a teenager again). As always, in John Green books, the adolescent/parent relationships are healthy and "normal". And so is the recognition that there is reason to hope.
The shrink scenes were funny but also realistic. I know how both enlightening and healing the written word can be. Thank you, John, for the vulnerability required to put these thoughts to paper. I know, from reading the "glowing book reviews" than John Green knows of what he writes. Being inside the head of a young woman with an anxiety disorder was both enlightening and anxiety producing. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.Īs a psychologist for teens, as a mom, and as a person, I loved this book. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Pickett’s son Davis.Īza is trying. John Green, the acclaimed author of Looking for Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars, returns with a story of shattering, unflinching clarity in this brilliant novel of love, resilience, and the power of lifelong friendship.Īza Holmes never intended to pursue the disappearance of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there’s a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. Club, Bustle, BuzzFeed, Vulture, and many more! Named a best book of the year by: The New York Times, NPR, TIME, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, Southern Living, Publishers Weekly, BookPage, A.V. “So surprising and moving and true that I became completely unstrung.” ( The New York Times )
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