![]() ![]() Grief isn’t a phase you simply walk through and come out the other side. The task of coming back from the loss of a loved one seems insurmountable, impossibly even, until you realize the truth. I knew what that felt like and I knew there were many kids out there who did too. ![]() In the book, Hazel has lost a parent to an accident, but she’s lost much more than that-she’s lost herself, she’s lost the ability to see possibility, to hope. I wanted my character, Hazel, to grapple with these same questions, and I could think of no better setting for her than the deep blue sea-the most beautiful, dangerous, and mysterious element on our planet. What do you do? How do you actually move on, as it seemed so easy for others to do? For me, a woman whose own parents were both dead by her early thirties, those questions had always been a mystery. When I sat down to write my next middle grade novel, I knew I wanted to tell a story about loss, about life after the unthinkable happens. To me, that’s a staggering number, almost overwhelming, to think of all those deeps no human has touched, all the possibilities we haven’t even thought of yet. ![]() ![]() More than eighty percent of the world’s oceans remain unexplored. ![]()
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