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As protests against police brutality, the COVID-19 pandemic, and her sister's depression upend her world, seventeen-year-old Tia struggles to hold on, but continues to find hope in her best friend and a new romance
Ages 13 and up
"I just want to enjoy being alive. Can't that be enough?" Tia doesn't know how much more she can take. Things have been weird with her best friend Drew since his activism has kicked into overdrive; her older sister Mel is in a coma after a mental health crisis; a global pandemic has stolen her senior year; and racial tension is high across the country, following the killing of another unarmed Black man by police. So when Tia's oldest sister Alexis invites her to stay at her place, Tia jumps at the chance to get out of the house and away from her daily life, if only for a little while. But even getting to know the cute girl she meets while walking her sister's new pandemic puppy is not enough to distract her from the weight of her world. Will Mel finally wake up? Is Alexis also on the edge of breaking? Will her friendship with Drew survive the summer? Is protest and quarantine all Tia can look forward to? With so much unrest in the world and in her life, Tia will have to figure out how to keep from losing hope or losing her mind
Grades 10-12