Will I love Challenger Deep?

I loved the unique way this story is told. It was clear right from the start that the author had a real depth of understanding of metal distress and portrayed this honestly and sensitively. The lived experience is deftly woven with the fantasy mystery aspects to create beautiful storytelling.

A fascinating, revealing, and sometimes difficult trip into the mind of Caden Bosch, who suffers from schizoaffective disorder, and his wildly creative and disconcerting forays into an alternate reality while suffering an episode. As if trying to navigate high school and family life weren’t hard enough. Co-written with the author’s son who suffers from this mental illness, the novel won the U.S. National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. It captures the fear and confusion as well as the beauty and ineffable nature of a mind perceiving the world differently than most of ours do.