How It Feels to Float

by Helena Fox

Book Overview

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best of the Year

"Profoundly moving . . . Will take your breath away." --Kathleen Glasgow, author of Girl in Pieces

A stunningly gorgeous and deeply hopeful portrayal of living with mental illness and grief, from an exceptional new voice.

Biz knows how to float. She has her people, her posse, her mom and the twins. She has Grace...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525554297
• ISBN13: 9780525554295
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Dial Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.6" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher

Customer Reviews

Great Debut

How it Feels to Float is a great debut. It’s clearly a first novel, but that shouldn’t be held against it. Fox has walked onto the scene with a gut-wrenching read about mental health and forgiving yourself. It’s a very honest look at mental illness, within oneself and inside another person. There were some bumps and hiccups here and there, but the writing flows flawlessly throughout. I recommend this as a hard-hitting young adult contemporary, although older audiences who don’t still read YA like me may appreciate this one for its prose. Ultimately, I look forward to picking up any- and everything Fox writes in the future. If you're on the fence about reading it I do highly recommend reading it!