Essential Maps for the Lost
Essential Maps for the Lost by Deb Caletti is a reprint edition published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers on April 4, 2017. This young adult novel explores themes of love, loss, and the complexities of mental illness through the experiences of Madison, known as Mads, as she navigates a tumultuous summer. Faced with the pressures of her mother’s expectations and a predetermined future, Mads encounters a life-altering event that intertwines her fate with that of Billy Youngwolf Floyd, a young man grappling with his own grief.
Readers will find a narrative that delves into the emotional landscapes of its characters, highlighting the struggles of bereavement and the search for identity. The story unfolds against a backdrop of social themes, including family dynamics and romance, as Mads and Billy confront their pasts and the secrets that bind them. With 352 pages, this edition presents a contemporary tale that resonates with the challenges of adolescence and the journey toward self-discovery.
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From Printz Honor medal winner and National Book Award finalist Deb Caletti comes a fresh and luminous novel “about love and loss, mental illness, and taking charge of one’s own fate” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
There are many ways to be lost.
Sometimes people want to be lost. Madison—Mads to everyone who knows her—is 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 other…and to solid ground?
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