A New Green Title

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

I haven't finished a book in a month! So weird for me. It's not that I haven't read anything--I have, I just haven't finished either of the two I have been reading for the last month. I may finish them someday, and they'll end up here, but not today.

Earlier this week, I got a signed copy of the new John Green book. I have been waiting for it for months, and it was so worth the wait. And like everything I have read by John Green, it was worth my time. He writes in way that is real, whether it is about cancer, growing up, or mental illness. This one happens to be the latter, for the most part.

Aza is a teenaged girl who lives in her own head most of the time. She is convinced she is going to catch something, and worries more about bacteria and microbes than one could possibly imagine. At the beginning of the book, she is eating lunch with her friends Mychal and Daisy, and they learn that the father of an old friend of Aza's has gone missing.

Aza reconnects with this old friend, who happens to be a billionaire's son, and tries to help his little brother find their dad using clues he left. Over the course of it all, we see Aza's struggle with her inner self about the bacteria and microbes.

All of this together helps form the person that Aza is, and is well written in a way that only John Green can manage.