Author: mariapadian

A Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of 2020 Family isn’t something you’re born into — it’s something you build. One young woman’s journey to find her place in the world as the carefully separated strands of her life — family, money, school, and love — begin to overlap and tangle.  All sixteen-year-old Izzy Crawford wants is to feel like she really belongs somewhere. Her father, a marine, … really belongs somewhere. Her father, a marine, died in Iraq six years ago, and Izzy’s moved to a new town nearly every year since, far from the help of her extended family…