num_pages: 320
description: A gorgeously written and deeply felt literary young adult novel of identity millennial anxiety and first love from the widely acclaimed author of The Mystery of Hollow PlacesIn Savannah Espinozas small New Mexico hometown kids either flee after graduation or theyre trapped there forever. Vanni never planned to get stuckbut that was before her father was diagnosed with Huntingtons disease leaving her and her mother to care for him. Now she doesnt have much of a plan at all: living at home working as a performing mermaid at a second-rate water park distracting herself with one boy after another.That changes the day she meets Leigh. Disillusioned with small-town life and looking for something greater Leigh is not a nice girl. She is unlike anyone Vanni has met and a friend when Vanni desperately needs one. Soon enough Leigh is much more than a friend. But caring about another person stirs up the moat Vanni has carefully constructed around herself and threatens to bring to the surface the questions shes held under for so long.With her signature stunning writing Rebecca Podos author of The Mystery of Hollow Places has crafted a story of first love and of the complex ways in which the deepest parts of us are hidden even from ourselves.
language: English
title: Like Water
publisher: Balzer + Bray