The Sea of Tranquility (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781476730943)

Gone Girl meets The Perks of Being a Wallflower in this critically-acclaimed novel about resilience, forgiveness, love, and second chances.

I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman boys to save you. A place where people die and music disintegrates and things suck. I am pressed so hard against the earth by the weight of reality that some days I wonder how I am still able to lift my feet to walk.

Two and a half years after an unspeakable tragedy left her a shadow of the girl she once was, Nastya Kashnikov moves to a new town determined to keep her dark past hidden and hold everyone at a distance. But her plans only last so long before she finds herself inexplicably drawn to the one person as isolated as herself: Josh Bennett.

Josh's story is no secret. Every person he loves has been taken from his life until, at seventeen years old, there is no one left. When your name is synonymous with death, everyone tends to give you your space. Everyone except Nastya who won't go away until she's insinuated herself into every aspect of his life. But as the undeniable pull between them intensifies, he starts to wonder if he will ever learn the secrets she's been hiding--or if he even wants to.

The Sea of Tranquility is a rich, intense, and brilliantly imagined story about a lonely boy, an emotionally fragile girl, and the mira-cle of second chances.

Author: Katja Millay
ISBN-10: 1476730946
ISBN-13: 9781476730943
Publisher: Atria Books
Language: English
Published: 06/04/2013
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 1.30d
Award: Alex Awards - Winner
Award: Nutmeg Book Award - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2013
Booklist 05/01/2013 pg. 68
SLJ Best Adult Bks 4 Teens 12/01/2013 pg. 43