When Everything Is Blue by Laura Lascarso

In this striking debut, Laura Lascarso weaves together a powerful story of anger and self-destruction, hope and love, and the complicated way that it all comes together.

But could it be the place that saves her? Sunny Meadows goes against everything Taylor stands for. But even as Taylor clings to her stubborn former self, she gradually relents to new friendships-and to unexpected romance. With her grandparents' epic first kiss story cemented in her brain, Nora develops a hypothesis she's determined to prove: for each person in the world, there is exactly one other person, and at first kiss, they'll experience an immediate and intense reaction. Sunny Meadows is anything but the easy way out, and Taylor has to fight hard just to hold on to her sanity as she battles her parents, an intrusive therapist, and a group of particularly nasty fellow patients. Her father convinces the judge of an alternative to punishment: treatment in a juvenile psychiatric correctional facility. When Taylor is caught with a stolen car, her reaction lands her in court for resisting arrest. Taylor Truwell is a sixteen-year-old girl from Florida with a troubled past, a neglectful mother, a seemingly callous father, and an urge to flee. Chris and Theo have been best friends since the 6th grade but as years passed Theo realized that his feelings for Chris are more amorous than friendly. The summer is over and with the end of the summer comes the return of his best friend, Chris. In this haunting and hopeful debut novel, a teen’s court-mandated psychiatric residency prompts a change in perspective from which there is no looking back. When Everything Is Blue by Laura Lascarso is the story of 16-year-old Theo.