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Essential Maps for the Lost
Essential Maps for the Lost | Deb Caletti
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From beloved author and National Book Award finalist Deb Caletti comes a fresh and luminous novel about the grief that can tear us apart and the people who can make us whole again. There are many ways to be lost. Sometimes people want to be lost. MadisonMads to everyone who knows heris trying her best to escape herself during one last summer away from a mother who needs more from her than she can give, and from a future that has been decided by everyone but her. Sometimes the lost do the unimaginable, like the woman, the body, Mads collides with in the middle of the water on a traumatic morning that changes everything. And sometimes the lost are the ones left behind, like the son of the woman in the water, Billy Youngwolf Floyd. Billy is struggling to find his way through each day in the shadow of grief. His one comfort is the map he carries in his pocket, out of his favorite book The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. When three lives (and one special, shared book) collide, strange things happen. Things like questions and coincidences and secrets, lots of secrets. Things like falling in love. But can two lost people telling so many lies find their way through tragedy to each otherand to solid ground?
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libraryfangirly
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So, when I said, "Come on, Chloe, it's cold and I want to get back inside and read" she actually heard "Have a lay down and watch the neighbors put up decorations while I go fetch my book and TARDIS blanket. We don't spend enough time outside on cold overcast days." Silly humans ?

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ElizabethSensa

On re-reading a book, 'From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' from the character's youth: "It's new again, read with older eyes. It's strange how a book is both steady and mutable." P.101

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debcaletti
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Ooh! Look what arrived yesterday... My newest YA, out in audiobook...

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ElizabethSensa
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"This is the self that understands things about the water - the way it can swallow you, keep you concealed, maybe forever." P. 7

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Shtechbrary

The library always makes Mads feel like she's pulled off a big score, too. Pg. 100

debcaletti ❤️ 8y
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Shtechbrary

He never realized it before, but burritos is the least romantic word there is.

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LibraryLily
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Ahh, Sunday mornings.

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Bethanychaseauthor
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I loved this like I love all of Deb Caletti's books. This is a thoughtful exploration of depression, in terms of how it affects both people who struggle with it and also their loved ones. As someone whose father has struggled with severe depression, it helped me understand a little better.

MarilynPF Is it fiction or nonfiction? Sounds like a great read. 8y
Bethanychaseauthor Fiction, young adult. The boy character's mother has just died by suicide at the opening of the story; the girl is the one who finds her. 8y
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