We Weren't Looking to Be Found
"Stephanie Kuehn writes fearlessly, honestly, and tenderly about the challenges of recovery"--Courtney Summers, New York Times best-selling author of Sadie and The Project
Dani comes from the richest, most famous Black family in Texas and has everything a girl could want. So why does she keep using drugs and engaging in other self-destructive behavior? Camila's Colombian American family doesn't have much, but she knows exactly what she wants out of life and works her ass off to get it. So why does she keep failing, and why does she self-harm every time she does? When Dani and Camila find themselves rooming together at Peach Tree Hills, a treatment facility in beautiful rural Georgia, they initially think they'll never get along--and they'll never get better. But then they find a mysterious music box filled with letters from a former resident of PTH, and together they set out to solve the mystery of who this girl was . . . and who she's become. The investigation will bring them closer, and what they find at the end might just bring them hope.
Dani comes from the richest, most famous Black family in Texas and has everything a girl could want. So why does she keep using drugs and engaging in other self-destructive behavior? Camila's Colombian American family doesn't have much, but she knows exactly what she wants out of life and works her ass off to get it. So why does she keep failing, and why does she self-harm every time she does? When Dani and Camila find themselves rooming together at Peach Tree Hills, a treatment facility in beautiful rural Georgia, they initially think they'll never get along--and they'll never get better. But then they find a mysterious music box filled with letters from a former resident of PTH, and together they set out to solve the mystery of who this girl was . . . and who she's become. The investigation will bring them closer, and what they find at the end might just bring them hope.
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Parts of We Weren’t Looking to Be Found resonate so strongly with me that I practically felt like I was reliving my own adolescence while other parts were so entirely counter to my experience with mental health treatment that I would get torn from the state of suspension of consciousness that we often enter to read a book and would have to remind myself it’s just a novel. Despite this fight between recognition and contradiction with my own life, this book had a hard hitting message of self reflection, community, and the moments that ultimately make us, us.
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