The Immeasurable Depth of You
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
A beautiful—and necessary—story about teen mental health.
In the gut-punching but uplifting tradition of Adam Silvera and Kathleen Glasgow comes a queer coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the Florida mangroves.
"Raw and compassionate.” —Kirkus, starred review
How do you face your fears when everything is terrifying?
Fifteen-year-old Brynn can’t stop thinking about death. Her intrusive thoughts and severe anxiety leave her feeling helpless—and hopeless. So after her mom interprets one of Brynn’s blog posts as a suicide note, she takes extreme measures, confiscating Brynn’s phone, blocking her Internet access, and banishing her to stay with her father who lives “off the grid” on a houseboat in the Florida mangroves. Isolated from her online friends—her only friends—Brynn resigns herself to a summer of mind-numbing boredom and loneliness… until Skylar appears.
Skylar is everything Brynn isn’t—sultry, athletic, and confident. Yet Brynn feels at home around this fearless girl who pushes her to try new things and makes her belly flutter with nerves that have nothing to do with anxiety. When Brynn discovers that Skylar is trapped in the bayou and can’t tell her why, she resolves to free her new crush from the dark waters, even if it means confronting all of her worst fears.
Through Brynn's funny and sincere narration, The Immeasurable Depth of You explores the ways mental illness can impact a life by centering a character who is learning (sometimes messily) to accept all parts of herself.
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After Brynn shares an emotional post online, prompting her mother to fear that she's suicidal, her mom sends Brynn to stay with her father on his Florida houseboat for the summer, hoping that being offline will improve her mental state. While navigating anxiety and intrusive thoughts about death and disaster, Brynn begins exploring the bayou on her father's paddleboard. Out among the trees, she finds a mysterious girl named Skylar, who invites Brynn to meet her the next day at a hidden beach. Brynn excitedly tells her father about her new friend, but she's shocked after he reveals that the girl she saw purportedly took her own life five years ago. Brynn confronts the ghost of Skylar, who insists she was murdered, and vows to find the killer, persisting even as the investigation reopens old wounds for Brynn's father, the town, and Skylar's parents. Mora (Fragile Remedy) renders Brynn, Skylar, and their respective parents' emotions with the grace and sympathy necessary for the heavy topics addressed. Intense emotional situations and the lightly supernatural premise, coupled with Brynn's growing self-compassion regarding her own mental health, make for a simultaneously devastating and uplifting telling. Main characters read as white. Ages 14–up.
