How to Live without You
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Publisher Description
In this heart-wrenching coming-of-age story about family, grief, and second chances, seventeen-year-old Emmy returns home for the summer to uncover the truth behind her sister Rose’s disappearance—only to learn that Rose had many secrets, ones that have Emmy questioning herself and the sister Emmy thought she knew.
When her sister Rose disappeared, seventeen-year-old Emmy lost a part of herself. Everyone else seems convinced she ran away and will reappear when she’s ready, but Emmy isn’t so sure. That doesn’t make sense for the Rose she knew: effervescent, caring, and strong-willed. So Emmy returns to their Ohio hometown for a summer, determined to uncover clues that can lead her back to Rose once and for all.
But what Emmy finds is a string of secrets and lies that she never thought possible, casting the person she thought she knew best in a whole new light. Reeling with confusion, Emmy decides to step into Rose’s life. She reconnects with their childhood best friend and follows in Rose’s last known footsteps with heart-wrenching consequences.
An honest and intimate look at sisterhood and the dark side of growing up, Sarah Everett’s latest novel is a stunning portrayal of how you can never truly know the ones you love.
As Emmy pieces together the puzzle of her sister’s hidden life, she has to ask: who was Rose, really?
A Sister’s Search for Truth: Emmy is the only one who believes her sister didn’t just run away. To find Rose, she’ll have to live in her shadow and uncover the secrets she left behind.Childhood Friends & First Love: Reconnecting with her childhood best friend, Levi, brings comfort and confusion as old feelings spark in the middle of her search.A Powerful Coming of Age: An emotional and honest exploration of sisterhood, the dark side of growing up, and the grief of learning that the people you love are not who you thought they were.YA Books about Mental Health: A sensitive and poignant look at the hidden struggles of depression and the devastating impact of secrets on a family.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Six years after their parents' divorce forced two Black sisters to part ways—and three months after one of them goes missing—their once-deep bond sustains a search in Everett's (Some Other Now) mental health–centered novel. Reserved Emmy, now 17, has spent the last several years living with the teens' mother in San Francisco, while stubborn, wild-spirited Rose, two years older, stayed in Riverwood, Ohio, with their father, who lives with mild agoraphobia. Emmy can't believe that her sister would run off without telling her, so she returns to Ohio for the summer, seeking to "draw back to me through that magnetic pull we share, that inexplicable bond of sisters who are also best friends." As Emmy reconnects with hometown friends, hoping to find clues about Rose's disappearance, she begins to learn that her sister is a much different person than Emmy has believed her to be. With the reluctant help of once-jovial childhood friend Levi, Emmy begins to look for clues Rose left behind on an Instagram account, slowly coming to terms with how separate their lives have been. Told in a delicately introspective first-person voice and including mentions of depression, suicide, and stigma, Everett's novel traverses the many effects of untreated mental illness. An author's note concludes. Ages 14–up.
