Struggling to balance the expectations of her immigrant mother with
her deep ambivalence about her own place in the world,
seventeen-year-old Ocean Wu takes her savings and goes off the
grid. A haunting and romantic novel about family, friendship,
philosophy, and love from Amy Zhang, the acclaimed author of
Falling into Place and This Is Where the World Ends. Ocean Wu has
always felt enormous pressure to succeed. After struggling with
depression during her senior year in high school, Ocean moves to
New York City, where she has been accepted at a prestigious
university. But Ocean feels so emotionally raw and unmoored (and
uncertain about what is real and what is not), that she decides to
defer and live off her savings until she can get herself together.
She also decides not to tell her mother (whom she loves very much
but doesn't want to disappoint) that she is deferring-at least
until she absolutely must. In New York, Ocean moves into an
apartment with Georgie and Tashya, two strangers who soon become
friends, and gets a job tutoring. She also meets a boy-Constantine
Brave (a name that makes her laugh)-late one night on the subway.
Constant is a fellow student and a graffiti artist, and Constant
and Ocean soon start corresponding via Google Docs-they discuss
physics, philosophy, art, literature, and love. But everything
falls apart when Ocean goes home for Thanksgiving, Constant reveals
his true character, Georgie and Tashya break up, and the police get
involved. Ocean, Constant, Georgie, and Tashya are all
cartographers-mapping out their futures, their dreams, and their
paths toward adulthood in this stunning and heartbreaking novel
about finding the strength to control your own destiny. For fans of
Nina LaCour's We Are Okay and Daniel Nayeri's Everything Sad Is
Untrue.
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