How It Feels to Float

by Helena Fox

Book Overview

"Profoundly moving . . . Will take your breath away." --Kathleen Glasgow, author of Girl in Pieces

"Give this to all your friends immediately . . . It tackles mental health, depression, sexual identity, and anxiety with beauty and empathy." --Cosmopolitan.com

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best of the Year

Biz knows how to float, right there on the surface--normal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052555436X
• ISBN13: 9780525554363
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Great Debut

How it Feels to Float is a great debut. It’s clearly a first novel, but that shouldn’t be held against it. Fox has walked onto the scene with a gut-wrenching read about mental health and forgiving yourself. It’s a very honest look at mental illness, within oneself and inside another person. There were some bumps and hiccups here and there, but the writing flows flawlessly throughout. I recommend this as a hard-hitting young adult contemporary, although older audiences who don’t still read YA like me may appreciate this one for its prose. Ultimately, I look forward to picking up any- and everything Fox writes in the future. If you're on the fence about reading it I do highly recommend reading it!