num_pages: 368
description: One wave: thats all it takes for the rest of Mae and Hannah Winters lives to change.When a tsunami strikes the island where their parents are vacationing it soon becomes clear that their mom and dad are never coming home. Forced to move to Boston from sunny California for the rest of their senior year each girl struggles with secrets their parents death has brought to light and with their uncertainty about the future. Instead of bringing them closer it feels like the wave has torn the sisters apart. Hannah is a secret poet who wants to be seen but only knows how to hide. The pain pills she stole from her dead father hurl her onto the shores of an addiction she cant shake and a dealer who turns her heart upside down. When its clear Hannahs drowning Mae a budding astronaut suddenly launched into an existential crisisand unexpected lovemust choose between herself and the only family she has left.
language: English
title: Little Universes
publisher: Henry, Holt and Co. (BYR)