How It Feels to Float Audiobook (Free)

Summary:

A deeply hopeful YA book about coping with mental illness that’s ideal for supporters of Female in Pieces

‘Profoundly moving . Will take your breath apart.’ –Kathleen Glasgow, writer of Girl in Parts

Biz knows how to float. She’s her people, her posse, her mother and the twins. She’s Grace. And she’s her father, who tells her about the little kid she was, and who shouldn’t be right here but is. So Biz doesn’t inform anyone anything. Not about her dark, runaway thoughts, not about kissing Grace or about How It Feels to Float noticing Jasper, the new son. And she doesn’t tell anyone about her dad. Because her dad died when she was seven. And Biz understands how exactly to float, right there around the surface–normal alright regular fine.

But after what happens over the beach–first in the sea, and in the sand–the tethers that hold Biz steady come undone. Dad disappears and, with him, all convenience. It might be less difficult, better, sweeter to float all the way away? Or possibly stay just a little much longer, find her dad, bring him back to her. Or maybe–maybe probably maybe–there’s a third way Biz just can’t see yet.

Debut author Helena Fox tells a tale about love and grief, about inter-generational mental illness, and exactly how living with it is both a bridge to someone cherished and shed and, also, a chasm. She explores the hard and gorgeous places loss may take us, and honors those who hold us firmly when the existing really wants to tug us out to sea.

‘Give this to all or any your…friends immediately.’ –Cosmopolitan.com

‘I haven’t been thus dazzled with a YA in age range.’ –Jandy Nelson, writer of I’ll Give You the Sun (via SLJ)

‘Mesmerizing and timely.’ –Bustle

‘Nothing in short supply of beautiful.’ –PopSugar

‘Immensely fulfilling’ –Young ladies’ Life

* ‘Lyrical and profoundly affecting.’ –Kirkus (starred review)

* ‘Masterful…Just beautiful.’ –Booklist (starred review)

* ‘Intimate…Unexpected.’ –PW (starred review)

* ‘Fox writes with superb understanding and tenderness.’ –BCCB (starred review)

* ‘Frank [and] beautifully crafted.’–BookPage (starred review)

‘This book will explode you into atoms.’ –Margo Lanagan, author of Tender Morsels

‘Helena Fox’s book delivers. Browse it.’ –Cath Crowley, author of Terms in Deep Blue