How it feels to float

Biz knows how to swim right on the surface – normal, okay, regular, good. She has her friends, her mother, the twins. She has Grace. And she has her father, who shouldn’t be here, but is anyway. So Biz tells no one anything – not about her dark thoughts that are spiraling more and more out of control, not about kissing Grace or watching Jasper, the new guy. And not about seeing her father. Because her father died when she was seven. But after what happened at the beach, the ropes that hold Biz are unraveling. Her father disappears and with him all comfort. Could it be easier, better, sweeter to drift away completely? Or maybe she should stay a little longer, find her father, bring him back to her. Or maybe – maybe maybe maybe – there’s a third way that Biz hasn’t seen yet. Debut author Helena Fox tells a story about love, grief, and mental illness across generations, exploring the hard and beautiful places that loss can take us, and honoring those who hold us steady when the current wants to pull us out to sea.