Turtles all the way down

Aza Holmes narrates from inside a mind that keeps tightening around the same intrusive thoughts, even as her best friend pulls her into an amateur search for a missing billionaire. John Green sets the disappearance of Russell Pickett alongside something quieter and harder: what it takes for Aza to be a daughter, a student and a friend while managing an anxiety spiral she cannot argue with. Her growing connection to Davis Pickett gives the novel its tenderness, and Daisy gives it friction, because friendship here is written with real arguments rather than easy loyalty. The prose stays plain and precise, and the mystery never crowds out the interior story. What sets it apart: • First-person narration that renders obsessive thought patterns without treating them as a plot device • A missing-person thread running beside the emotional story rather than dominating it • Friendship written with honest conflict instead of simple support • From the author of The Fault in Our Stars and Looking for Alaska Suited to teenage and adult readers drawn to contemporary fiction about mental health, first love and lasting friendship, stocked by Boipoka.