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From beloved author and National Book Award finalist Deb Caletti comes a fresh and luminous novel about the grief that can tear us apart and the people who can make us whole again.
There are many ways to be lost.
Sometimes people want to be lost. Madison—Mads to everyone who knows her—is trying her best to escape herself during one last summer away from a mother who needs more from her than she can give, and from a future that has been decided by everyone but her.
Sometimes the lost do the unimaginable, like the woman, the body, Mads collides with in the middle of the water on a traumatic morning that changes everything.
And sometimes the lost are the ones left behind, like the son of the woman in the water, Billy Youngwolf Floyd. Billy is struggling to find his way through each day in the shadow of grief. His one comfort is the map he carries in his pocket, out of his favorite book The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.
When three lives (and one special, shared book) collide, strange things happen. Things like questions and coincidences and secrets, lots of secrets. Things like falling in love. But can two lost people telling so many lies find their way through tragedy to each other…and to solid ground?
- Sales Rank: #653532 in Books
- Published on: 2016-04-05
- Released on: 2016-04-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x 1.00" w x 5.50" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 336 pages
From School Library Journal
Gr 9 Up—The relationship between Mads and Billy, two teenagers thrown together by grisly fate and bound together over the course of the novel by love, echoes with a motif—a certain book beloved by them both: E.L. Konigsburg's From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Having read the story of these two siblings who decide to hide out in the Metropolitan Museum of Art after closing time is not essential, but it is helpful to understanding the book's significance in their lives. Mads is a big reader; Billy has really only read this one book, which was special to his depressed mother, who left Billy reeling and living with his Gran after she jumped off a Seattle bridge. Mads struggles with depression herself even while she is living with her aunt and uncle to take an accelerated course to get her realtor's license. She feels trapped and locked into the future her mother has dictated. The teen is swimming in a lake one spring morning when the corpse of a jumper bumps her. Mads tows Anna Youngwolf Floyd to shore and becomes obsessed with her and the son she left behind. As she and the dog-saving, rescue shelter-working gamer Billy come to know each other, Mads can't tell him what brought her into his life. Caletti excels at focusing on the perspectives of both young people. Billy's overwhelming and moving love for Mads will pluck the heartstrings of many readers. VERDICT Recommend this tale of overcoming the ogres of depression and loss with the saving graces of sustaining relationships and self-discovery.—Suzanne Gordon, Lanier High School, Sugar Hill, GA
Review
Caletti (The Last Forever) returns with a lovely testament to human resiliency and true love. Mads Murray is staying with her aunt and uncle in Seattle while she pursues her realtor’s license in order to work with her mother. It’s not what Mads wants, but guilt and loyalty to her mother have trapped her, causing a spiral into depression. While swimming in Lake Union one morning, she discovers a body. Mads becomes fixated on the dead woman, Anna Youngwolf Floyd,and her son, Billy, who is destroyed by grief and finds comfort in the dogs that he “liberates” from unfit owners, the no-kill shelter where he works, and a map from E.L. Konigsburg’s From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. When Mads and Billy meet, they are smitten, but Mads is terrified to reveal that she’s the one who found his mother. Billy and Mads’s romance is tender and sweet, and Caletti’s lyrical, sometimes witty narration pulls readers close to both teenagers’ tangled emotions in a complex exploration of grief, mental illness, the redemptive power of storytelling, and the hope found in unexpected places. Ages 14–up. (Publishers Weekly *STARRED REVIEW* January 11, 2016)
Two teens meet under unusual and sorrowful circumstances,and together they learn that life is full of both joy and despair. During a morning swim, 18-year-old Mads Murray discovers a woman's body floating in Seattle's Lake Union. When the local news reveals the woman's identity, Mads becomes obsessed with finding proof that Anna Youngwolf Floyd was more than a dead body, that she was a real person with connections to the world. Readers learn Anna's depression drove her to jump off the Aurora Bridge, but Mads, who is no stranger to depression, doesn't know that yet. Mads, in Seattle for the summer for an accelerated real estate course, is the only hope for the survival of her mentally ill mother's business, a fact that fills her with dread.Desperate to know why someone would end her own life, she finds a way to meet Anna's 19-year-old son, kindhearted dog-rescuer Billy, who's ignorant of his connection to Mads. The novel treats depression for what it is: a sometimes-debilitating illness one can't simply snap out of; it's neither a personality flaw nor a shortcoming. Third-person limited perspective alternates between Mads and Billy, resulting in loads of dramatic irony, and Mads and Billy's mutual love of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler is a sweet leitmotif. The gently chiding and honest narrative voice keeps its astute focus on the characters' emotions and does not plumb the heritage implied by Anna's name. A clear eyed story about love and loss, mental illness,and taking charge of one's own fate. (Kirkus Reviews **STARRED REVIEW** January 15, 2016)
Gr 9 Up–The relationship between Mads and Billy, two teenagers thrown together by grisly fate and bound together over the course of the novel by love, echoes with a motif—a certain book beloved by them both: E. L. Konigsburg’s From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Having read the story of these two siblings who decide to hide out in the Metropolitan Museum of Art after closing time is not essential,but it is helpful to understanding the book’s significance in their lives. Mads is a big reader; Billy has really only read this one book, which was special to his depressed mother, who left Billy reeling and living with his Gran after she jumped off a Seattle bridge. Mads struggles with depression herself even while she is living with her aunt and uncle to take an accelerated course to get her realtor’s license. She feels trapped and locked into the future her mother has dictated. The teen is swimming in a lake one spring morning when the corpse of a jumper bumps her. Mads tows Anna Youngwolf Floyd to shore and becomes obsessed with her and the son she left behind. As she and the dog-saving,rescue shelter–working gamer Billy come to know each other, Mads can’t tell him what brought her into his life. Caletti excels at focusing on the perspectives of both young people. Billy’s overwhelming and moving love for Mads will pluck the heartstrings of many readers. VERDICT Recommend this tale of overcoming the ogres of depression and loss with the saving graces of sustaining relationships and self-discovery. (School Library Journal *STARRED REVIEW* February 2016)
About the Author
Deb Caletti is an award-winning author and National Book Award finalist. Her many books for young adults include Stay; The Nature of Jade; and Honey, Baby, Sweetheart, winner of the Washington State Book Award and the PNBA Best Book Award, and a finalist for the PEN USA Award. Her books for adults include He’s Gone and her latest release, The Secrets She Keeps. She lives with her family in Seattle.
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Emotional Story
By K. Sowa
I love hearing the ‘how we met’ stories that couples tell. There is something sort of magical about hearing these stories and the way that the universe or fate brings people together. In Essential Maps for the Lost, a terrible event connects Billy and Mads, but to paraphrase the narrator, sometimes the worst things can bring happiness. Billy’s mother’s suicide defines him, at least as we’re reading the book, and Madison’s connection to his mom has defined her, too, in many ways. Her temporary reprieve from her toxic mother comes with the price of returning to her hometown to live a life she doesn’t really want. So, they both go with the current and do what everyone expects, but there are little signs that they desperately want more. That feeling becomes stronger after they meet and they act as a catalyst for each other. The narrative voice was interesting and it really grew on me as the story progressed. I was glad we were allowed to hear both Mads and Billy’s thoughts because it was important to hear their inner voices, I thought. Both the positive and negative influences of family played a big role in this book, which I thought provided a lot of depth to the story, especially as it pertained to Billy and Mad’s feelings of obligation to the people who care for them.
Since they didn’t feel like they could save themselves, they found ways to exert that control on other things in their lives. Billy saves dogs since he couldn’t save his mom (this was one of my favorite things about this book), and Mads tries to be the shield against a toxic home life for the little girl she babysits. In their own way, they are trying to help others the way they couldn’t help themselves, and it is so heartbreaking, at times. What struck me was how deeply both Billy and Mads were struggling with guilt, and their guilt basically came from their desire to live their own life. The source of the guilt was different, but their need to move toward something new almost crippled them. I think that’s what I loved about them as a couple. They were afraid of getting too attached to something that made them happy, yet they couldn’t help it. I loved that Essential Maps for the Lost showed two people falling in love as they were healing. The trauma and the grief didn’t end just because they found each other, they were still slowly pulling themselves out of the feelings and situations that seemed to be roadblocks, but it didn’t stop them from going after happiness. Essential Maps for the Lost was very emotional, but so satisfying as a story. It was sad and sweet and complicated, which is exactly what I look for in a YA contemporary. Deb Caletti is a great storyteller and this book was no exception in her wonderful scope of work.
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A Well Written Book about Self-Discovery
By Kelly Gunderman
This review originally appeared on herestohappyendings.com.
“Somewhere in the universe, a couple of stars collide. They aren’t fancy stars, or even ones with names. Just regular old stars. Two of millions. Still, just like that, some of the best things begin.”
There are plenty of sweet, romantic YA contemporary novels out there that focus on cute, fluffy relationships and all kinds of high school drama – none of them going very deep or having much substance to them. Essential Maps for the Lost offers something a little more than that.
Madison (or Mads, as everyone calls her) is spending summer away from her mother, who is trying to force her to become a part of her real-estate business, even though Mads would much rather go to college and find a career for herself that she actually wants. In order to make her mother happy, she agrees to stay with her aunt, uncle, and cousin during the summer while taking real-estate classes at the local college so she can come home and sign the paperwork making her a partner with her mom.
One morning, when out for a swim near her family’s house, Mads makes a shocking discovery: she runs into the body of a woman while swimming. Not really a great way to start the day.
From that point on, Mads becomes obsessed with the woman – Googling her, finding her home and investigating it, even learning that the woman had a son, Billy Youngwolf Floyd.
Billy, grieving for his mother and full of questions, has moved in with his grandmother after the death of his mother. He works at a local animal shelter, where he spends free time picking up strays or neglected and abused animals and brings them in, finding them good homes where they will be happy. But Billy himself is lost and confused. The only thing that makes him feel better and makes any sense is a map from a favorite book that he shared with his mother.
When Billy first notices Mads, he doesn’t think much of it – she was probably only dating one of the guys in the neighborhood of his old house – after all, why else would she be standing outside the house? But when he meets up with her at other random times, such as on a bridge, where he thinks she might be planning to jump, he eventually starts to wonder if perhaps they were supposed to know each other. Mads wonders the same thing, as her obsessions with the dead woman and her family continue. As the two of them start to build a relationship, it becomes harder for Mads to tell Billy exactly why they had met – because she was the girl who pulled his mother’s body out of the water.
What I liked most about this book was that it had a lot of substance to it. It was filled with deep, meaningful situations that stand out from traditional YA romance novels. Essential Maps for the Lost didn’t just focus on finding “the one” – it also focused on the self-discovery and figuring out who you really are and what you want from life.
Billy and Mads were both wonderful characters – they were full of depth and had really wonderful personalities. It was nice watching the two of them meet and slowly begin to develop feelings for each other over the course of the summer. I even loved Billy’s grandmother (she was a bit cranky, but in a way that you couldn’t help but love her character).
The pacing in the book is a little bit on the slow side, and I felt like there were a few chapters where not too much actually happened, though. I don’t usually mind slow pacing if the rest of the book is good, so it didn’t bother me all that much. The writing was beautiful and serene…I think this book would be perfect for summer reading…especially on a camping trip or something.
Essential Maps for the Lost is a touching novel, the kind that you find yourself reading long into the night full of hope for the main characters and their budding relationship.
Note: I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Raw story of survival and resilience.
By Madison's Library
This is a raw and revealing tale of survival and resilience, of searching for sunlight and chasing your dreams.
Right from the start the reader is warned that the story between Madison Murray (Mads) and Billy Youngwolf Floyd will be horrible but also beautiful. Readers are told to hang on through the tough bits and wait for the good. Well, this is great advice. There are plenty of hard bits in this story. One minute everything is going along smoothly, sunshine and puppy dogs, kisses and smiles and then suddenly everything spirals downwards, only to jump back again. This certainly is a book that drags you right along through the characters' emotional turmoil.
Mads is up against a ticking clock. She has this one last summer before she must return home to her (slightly unstable) mother who needs her (and loves her), the (in-danger-of-crumbling) real-estate business she will share with her mother, and her endless future of house-showings and signed deals. She must pass her real-estate licensing course, forget about the college applications she never sent, and cope with the despair she feels over the looming deadline to her life. When Mads bumps into the body of Anna Youngwolf Floyd while swimming one morning, Mads' path is irrevocably altered. Her obsession with Anna, who she was and why she came to be in the lake, brings her into the orbit of Anna's son Billy. They connect through a series of unlikely yet not-coincidental meetings, but their story is not to be a smooth journey.
The story is written in an interesting style. The book opens with a section of second-person narration, where the reader is warned about the nature of Billy and Mads' story. This second-person narration reappears at intervals throughout the story, while the book continues to be told in a style which seems half exactly what the characters are thinking or feeling put into words and half a knowledgable narrator looking down and making comments and foretellings. There is just something about the narration, the tone of the story that drags you in, it is charming and just a little quirky. In a way it was hard to connect with the characters, as you aren't quite in the characters' heads and there is never any doubt that Billy, Mads and co. are just characters in a story. But there is something undeniably nice about being told a story.
I've heard depression called many things and described in many ways. The ogres. That's how Mads' feelings are described. The obese ogre of self-loathing who points and laughs. The ogre of despair who is large and loves to push and pull and stomp. In contrast, it is Billy's favourite video game, Night Worlds, that is used to convey his feelings, where it is a Gaze Attack that can so quickly create an Ability Drain or relief that offers a spell of Fast Healing. Essential Maps for the Lost is a love story, but it's also a warning to readers to beware the people and the voices inside yourself who tell you to give up or that there is no future. And it's the story of Mads and Billy who find their ability to hope and hold onto their dreams both inside each other and inside themselves.
I loved how Mads' situation is never compared to Billy's, it is never undermined or devalued. Yes, she has a mother who loves her! A business! An extended family who cares! She has a future! But her feelings of despair are real and true, and I loved that this book validates how she is feeling, regardless of how her life may compare to others'.
This is a charming story, childlike and yet it covers some very mature topics. It is simple, complicated and brilliant. A great mix of hopeful and somber, realistic with just that little touch of everyday magic you find in the most unlikely of places.
The publishers provided a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
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