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The sensitive, suspenseful story of a family coping with a life-changing tragedy, told in stunning verse. Is it wrong to grieve for someone who is still alive?

The novel in verse follows a 13-year-old girl on vacation with her parents. Her mother tells her a painful secret just before suffering a brain aneurysm rupture, and the family must learn to navigate a difficult new existence.

​​Joanne Rossmassler Fritz is the author of Everywhere Blue, which was an NCTE Notable Verse Novel, a Mighty Girl Best Book of the Year, a Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year, and the Cybils Award Poetry Winner.