Because Everything Is Right but Everything Is Wrong
a young adult novel
Can you be lost and not know it?
Can other people stop you from being lost?
Seventeen-year-old Caleb’s world is disintegrating, his walls are closing in, his sky is threatening to fall. He’s barely holding on. To deadlines. To friends. To family. To mum. To Pat.
But he has Casey.
Maybe she can save him . . .
rumour has it …
All emotion and completely human
The Sapling
. . . a striking chronicle
Ashleigh Young, author of Can you tolerate this?
. . . a beautifully written and important book
Mental Health Foundation
. . . incredibly relatable and authentic
Mental Health Foundation
Never patronising or cliched, this is an inspirational read
New Zealand Herald
. . . movingly and poetically told
The Sapling
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