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Fractured friendships & a letter that shouldn’t exist…
If You Find This Letter is a middle-grade novel in verse that’s as accessible as it is profound. The story follows introspective and empathetic Dani as she navigates shifting friendships, a complicated relationship with her over-protective, violin-playing mom, and a mystery involving a book with letters that magically appear from another era. Author and poet, Ona Gritz deftly weaves emotional highs and lows with symbolic depth, all while engaging readers in vividly depicted New York neighborhood settings. Grief, loyalty, disability, and the power of "re-storying" are explored with perfect pacing. This gem of a novel reminds us that there is always so much more than we are aware of behind other people’s stories, and when we pause and listen to them, we often find we aren’t so different after all. —Kimberly Behre Kenna
"A beautiful novel in verse. I loved everything about this book. The characters are relatable, well written and there’s just enough mystery and magic. The story builds beautifully and I loved everything coming together in the end. I could have spent hundreds of more pages in this world, absolutely beautifully done." —Goodreads Review
A remarkably cohesive, genre-defying memoir that is at once a beautiful love letter and a haunting true-crime investigation.
— Kirkus Reviews
Potent and meaningful, this is a mini-coming-of-age, written in verse, that draws you in until the last page.
— Bookworm for Kids
A thoughtful must-read that explores grueling attempts to destroy girls’ spirits.
— Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
“I read Everywhere I Look in a single sitting, and I hadn’t done that in years. It is both detective story and memoir and utterly entrancing.“
Michèle Dawson Haber Hipppcampus Magazine
“As readers, we are right there with her on that learning journey. … As we have seen with these honest and moving essays, Gritz seeks, over and over, to claim the many facets of her identity.”
Maria Scala Literary Mama
“The notion that two contrasting things may be simultaneously possible appears in many of the essays in this sensitive and elegantly composed collection. … Ona Gritz on the page is a warm, wise, and concise confidant who deftly turns the craggy rocks of life into touchstones.”
Ellen Blum Barish Brevity
“With casual yet muscular language, Gritz’s poetry sets readers’ expectations of quiet moments and then upends them with a surprise turn of phrase or a devastating event.”
Ginny Kaczmarek Literary Mama