For fans of Girl in Pieces All the Bright Places and Girl Interrupted comes a haunting and breathtaking YA contemporary debut novel that packs a powerful message: hope can be found in the darkness.Seventeen-year-old Ellie had no hope left. Yet the day after she dies by suicide she finds herself in the midst of an out-of-body experience. She is a spectator swaying betwFor fans of Girl in Pieces All the Bright Places and Girl Interrupted comes a haunting and breathtaking YA contemporary debut novel that packs a powerful message: hope can be found in the darkness.Seventeen-year-old Ellie had no hope left. Yet the day after she dies by suicide she finds herself in the midst of an out-of-body experience. She is a spectator swaying between past and present retracing the events that unfolded prior to her death.But there are gaps in her memory fractured pieces Ellie is desperate to re-assemble. There's her mother a songbird who wanted to break free from her oppressive cage. The boy made of brushstrokes and goofy smiles who brought color into a gray world. Her brooding father with his sad puppy eyes and clenched fists. Told in epistolary-like style this deeply moving novel sensitively examines the beautiful and terrible moments that make up a life and the possibilities that live in even the darkest of places. Perfect for fans of the critically-acclaimed Speak Ill Give You the Sun and If I Stay.(less)