The Immeasurable Depth of You

After Brynn shares an emotional post online, prompting her mother to fear that she’s suicidal, her mom sends Brynn to stay with her father on his Florida houseboat for the summer, hoping that being offline will improve her mental state. While navigating anxiety and intrusive thoughts about death and disaster, Brynn begins exploring the bayou on her father’s paddleboard. Out among the trees, she finds a mysterious girl named Skylar, who invites Brynn to meet her the next day at a hidden beach. Brynn excitedly tells her father about her new friend, but she’s shocked after he reveals that the girl she saw purportedly took her own life five years ago. Brynn confronts the ghost of Skylar, who insists she was murdered, and vows to find the killer, persisting even as the investigation reopens old wounds for Brynn’s father, the town, and Skylar’s parents. Mora (Fragile Remedy) renders Brynn, Skylar, and their respective parents’ emotions with the grace and sympathy necessary for the heavy topics addressed. Intense emotional situations and the lightly supernatural premise, coupled with Brynn’s growing self-compassion regarding her own mental health, make for a simultaneously devastating and uplifting telling. Main characters read as white. Ages 14–up. (Mar.)