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Like Water by Podos, Rebecca, author is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Like Water about?
A gorgeously written and deeply felt literary young adult novel of identity, millennial anxiety, and first love, from the widely acclaimed author of The Mystery of Hollow Places In Savannah Espinozas small New Mexico hometown, kids either flee after graduation or theyre trapped there forever. Vanni never planned to get stuckbut that was before her father was diagnosed with Huntingtons disease, leaving her and her mother to care for him. Now, she doesnt have much of a plan at all: living at home, working as a performing mermaid at a second-rate water park, distracting herself with one boy after another. That changes the day she meets Leigh. Disillusioned with small-town life and looking for something greater, Leigh is not a nice girl. She is unlike anyone Vanni has met, and a friend when Vanni desperately needs one. Soon enough, Leigh is much more than a friend. But caring about another person stirs up the moat Vanni has carefully constructed around herself, and threatens to bring to the surface the questions shes held under for so long. With her signature stunning writing, Rebecca Podos, author of The Mystery of Hollow Places , has crafted a story of first love and of the complex
Who reads Like Water?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Podos, Rebecca, author
- Publisher
- New York, NY: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780062373373
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Children'S, Fiction, Young Adult
- Rating
- 3.89 / 5 (109 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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