Turtles All the Way Down

"John Green has written another young adult novel that is part adventure story and part love story – but this book is a little darker. Sixteen-year-old Aza Holmes suffers from anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder. She has a wound on her finger that she is compelled to reopen and clean, reopen and clean. Much of the book takes place in her mind, which is consumed by thoughts of bacteria, microbes and what-if spirals. But Aza also has a great best friend who is trying to understand. And together they have a crime to solve. Turtles All The Way Down is a sometimes heartbreaking, always illuminating, glimpse into how it feels to live with mental illness."

"John Green's "Turtles All the Way Down" broke me completely in half; to be able to inhabit Aza's brain, and understand the color and texture and dialogue of her anxiety, was powerfully affirming."