Callie Morgan has long lived choked by the failure of her own lungs, the result of an elusive pulmonary illness that has plagued her since childhood. A childhood marked early by the drowning death of her mother—a death to which Callie was the sole witness. Her father has moved them inland, away from the memories of the California coast her mother loved so much and toward promises of recovery—and the escape of denial—in arid, landlocked air.

But after years of running away, the promise of a life-changing job for her father brings Callie and him back to the coast, to Florida, where Callie’s symptoms miraculously disappear. For once, life seems delightfully normal. But the ocean’s edge offers more than healing air … it holds a magnetic pull, drawing Callie closer and closer to the chilly, watery embrace that claimed her mother. Returned to the ocean, Callie comes of age and comes into a family destiny that holds generations of secrets and very few happy endings.

WHY SHOULD YOU CHECK IT OUT?

Novels that question reality, that have supernatural leanings that might just be mental health issues, have been on the rise lately with novels like “Charm & Strange”, “Liar” and now Callie Morgan’s tale. We’re very curious to know the answer to that question with this one!

This cover caught our eye every time we encountered it these past few months. Callie has an intense look on her face that is part anger part fear. She’s trapped between the tide that is coming for her, and a corner of a room—as though to say the mystery of the ocean and her normal life are colliding.

This is author Kat Rosenfeld’s second novel, following on the success of her critically-acclaimed debut, AMELIA ANNE IS DEAD AND GONE. If you’re unfamiliar with Rosenfeld’s style, you may want to pick that one up first but they are both standalones!

EARLY REVIEWS SAY…

The story is at its best in the sensory details that create its vaguely sinister atmosphere; the way the characters all feel trapped by their small town and yet also suffer a sort of terrifying lethargy that prevents them from escaping recalls the stellar Amelia Anne Is Dead and Gone (2012). (Kirkus Reviews)

Rosenfield resists spelling out anything definitively. Readers catch glimpses of mermaids, selkies, sirens, and mental illness—any of which might be a red herring or the real thing. (Publishers Weekly)

NECESSARY DETAILS
YA Contemporary
Hardcover & ebook, 388 pages
Published on June 12th 2014 by Dutton Juvenile (ISBN 0525426485)

http://www.penguin.com/book/inland-by-kat-rosenfield/9780525426486