The Atlas of Us
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
“A complete knockout. Readers will be thinking of this story long after they finish the final page.” —Adalyn Grace, New York Times bestselling author of Belladonna
“Utterly compelling and impossible to put down.” —Rachel Griffin, New York Times bestselling author of Bring Me Your Midnight
“I’ve never read a book that felt so much like picking up pieces of a broken heart—powerful, poignant, and true.” —Axie Oh, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea and XOXO
Atlas has lost her way.
In a last-ditch effort to pull her life together, she’s working on a community service program rehabbing trails in the Western Sierras. The only plus is that the days are so exhausting that Atlas might just be tired enough to forget that this was one of her dad’s favorite places in the world. Before cancer stole him from her life, that is.
Using real names is forbidden on the trail. So Atlas becomes Maps, and with her team—Books, Sugar, Junior, and King—she heads into the wilderness. As she sheds the lies she’s built up as walls to protect herself, she realizes that four strangers might know her better than anyone has before. And with the end of the trail racing to meet them, Maps is left counting down the days until she returns to her old life—without her new family, and without King, who’s become more than just a friend.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
This powerful young-adult drama perfectly captures the heartache, anger, and new possibilities that come from searing loss. Teenager Atlas James’ father was the only person who truly understood her, so his unexpected death sends her into a grief spiral. After dropping out of high school, Atlas lands on a hiking trail in California’s western Sierra Nevada mountains, her dad’s favorite place in the world. There, she forges life-changing friendships with four other troubled teens who have been court ordered to perform community service. Author Kristin Dwyer makes her young protagonist’s anguish and reawakening feel very believable. Set in the majestic California wilderness with its rough terrain and gorgeous vistas, The Atlas of Us is an inspirational winner.
