The Edge of Anything [Paperback]

A Kirkus ReviewsBest Book of 2020
One ofA Mighty Girl's Best Books of the Year
​A Bank Street Best Books 2021
Finalist for the Cybils Awards

Len is a loner teen photographer haunted by a past that's stagnated her work and left her terrified she's losing her mind. Sage is a high school volleyball star desperate to find a way around her sudden medical disqualification. Both girls need college scholarships. After a chance encounter, the two develop an unlikely friendship that enables them to begin facing their inner demons.

But both Len and Sage are keeping secrets that, left hidden, could cost them everything, maybe even their lives.

Set in the North Carolina mountains, this dynamic #ownvoices novel explores grief, mental health, and the transformative power of friendship.A graduate of Vermont College of Fine Art's MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program,Nora Shalaway Carpenteris the author of the forthcoming YA contemporary novel,The Edge of Anything(Running Press, April 7, 2020), editor and contributing author of the forthcoming YA anthologyRural Voices(Candlewick, Fall 2020), and author of the picture bookYoga Frog(Running Press, out now). Before she wrote books, Nora worked as associate editor ofWonderful West Virginiamagazine and has been a Certified Yoga Teacher since 2012. Originally from rural West Virginia, she currently lives in Asheville, North Carolina with her husband, three young children, and the world's most patient dog and cat. Equal parts humorous and heartwrenching. . . . A powerful, tender reminder of the importance offriendship in times of trauma. Kirkus Reviews, starred review Carpenter's debut is written with a sure hand; her descriptions of anxiety and OCD are spot-on. Hand to fans of John Green immediately. Booklist This evenly paced book shines a light on the pol2