We Are All So Good at SmilingThey Both Die at the End meets The Bell Jar in this haunting, beautiful young adult novel in verse about clinical depression and healing from trauma, from National Book Award Finalist Amber McBride. Whimsy is back in the hospital for treatment of clinical depression. When she meets a boy named Faerry, she recognizes they both have magic in the marrow of their bones. And when Faerry and his family move to the same street, the two start to realize that

and material distractions to obscure what matters most

She attracts the interest of a lonely security guard and army veteran who’s looking for a traditional life for himself and his young son

but a move with her newly blended family from their small California beach town to the embattled Midwestern city of Cedarville might be the fresh start she needs

The stories collected here are by turns hilarious

Sylah dreams of days growing up in the resistance

and she is not afraid: Not of her cousin's new husband

But even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the mystery of her family's loss

Lyon's eloquent text explores the power of family traditions

and an occasional roll in the hay to relieve all that career-driven tension

Gia and Raashaun explore the entire chronology of their love story with remarkable vulnerability

His parents are fighting all the time

she resorts to a dangerous game to keep her family afloat