Vendor
	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English
Categories
Children’s, Teenage & Educational

THE ATLAS OF US

Kristin Dwyer

Perfect for fans of Kathleen Glasgow and Nina LaCour, Kristin Dwyer's sophomore novel is a heartbreaking YA romance about finding love when everything else seems lost.

Atlas Jones has lost her way. In the wake of her father's death and a terrible accident, she enrolls in a nature work camp for troubled teens, hoping to get her life back on track. She can get a fresh start there, she thinks, since the program requires the participants to use fake names to avoid bringing their outside lives into the forest. But Maps, as she's christened upon arrival, wasn't expecting the work or the hiking to be quite so difficult - and she definitely wasn't expecting her team leader "King", a graduate of last year's program, to be so compelling. Romance is forbidden on the trail, so Maps resolves to focus on herself. But as she and King develop an undeniable connection, she's forced to decide whether being with him is worth throwing away the work she's trying to do on herself.

Kristin Dwyer is also the author of Some Mistakes Were Made. When she's not writing books about people kissing Kristin is a part-time hair model and full-time TSA PRECHECK. One time a credible news outlet asked for her opinion on K- pop (it was the best day of her life). Please do not talk to her about your fandom, she will try to join.

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Book Published 2024-01-01 by HarperCollins
Book Published 2024-01-09 by HarperCollins

Comments

Beautifully written. Gripping and authentic in the ways it portrays grief and shows how moving forward means having to let go.

Utterly compelling and impossible to put down.

Russia: Exem

Dwyer meaningfully shows how Atlas, who brims with pain over her father's death, gradually learns how to live with her loss. The analogy of life as a trail that needs maintenance and care applies here, and Atlas learns that with both, you have to keep going.

Dwyer crafts stirring and organic character interactions via Atlas and her trail mates' good-humored banter, as well as her electric chemistry with King. Combined with the lushly depicted wilderness setting, Atlas's fledgling relationships emphasize how connection can bloom unexpectedly and powerfully even amid grief.

A complete knockout. Readers will be thinking of this story long after they finish the final page.

I've never read a book that felt so much like picking up pieces of a broken heartpowerful, poignant, and true.