The employee guides Aza and Daisy into the ornate Pickett mansion, where Davis and his 13-year-old brother, Noah, now live under the care of the staff. When a Pickett employee catches them, Aza says she and Davis are old friends. Aza and Daisy take a canoe up the river to the Pickett mansion and sneak onto the property in search of clues. Pickett had been facing a bribery conviction.ĭaisy recalls that Pickett’s son, Davis, and Aza attended a grief camp together after Aza’s dad died and Davis lost his mom. Police are offering a $100,000 reward for information.
The girls hear local billionaire Russell Pickett has disappeared. Cheese and writes fanfiction about Star Wars characters online. Often, she wonders if she is a fictitious character created by someone else who is writing her life.Īza’s best friend, Daisy, works at Chuck E. She fears taking medication will make her someone other than herself. Aza takes her psychiatric medication inconsistently, despite the pleas of her mother and her counselor. Her thoughts often swirl out of control, driving her to loathe herself. She constantly reopens, sanitizes and rebandages a wound on her hand and reads online articles about a disease called Clostridium difficile (C. Aza sees a counselor for her obsessive-compulsive behavior, which centers on her fear of germs and disease. Her father died of a heart attack years earlier. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.Sixteen-year-old Aza lives with her mom in Indianapolis. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Pickett’s son Davis.Īza is trying. JOHN GREEN, the acclaimed author of Looking for Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars, returns with a story of shattering, unflinching clarity in this brilliant novel of love, resilience, and the power of lifelong friendship.Īza Holmes never intended to pursue the disappearance of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there’s a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. Club, Bustle, BuzzFeed, Vulture, and many more! Named a best book of the year by: The New York Times, NPR, TIME, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, Southern Living, Publishers Weekly, BookPage, A.V. “So surprising and moving and true that I became completely unstrung.” – The New York Times
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