Bio:
Sara Polsky is a writer and editor living in New York City. Her writing has appeared in The Forward, Poets & Writers, The Christian Science Monitor, Curbed, The Awl, and other publications. Her first novel for young adults, This Is How I Find Her, was published in September 2013. Visit her online.


This is How I Find Her

Sophie Canon has just started her junior year when her mother tries to kill herself. Sophie has always lived her life in the shadow of her mother's bipolar disorder, monitoring her medication, rushing home after school to check on her instead of spending time with friends, and keeping her mother's diagnosis secret from everyone outside their family. But when the overdose lands Sophie's mother in the hospital, Sophie no longer has to watch over her. She moves in with her aunt, uncle, and cousin, from whom she has been estranged for the past five years. Rolling her suitcase across town to her family's house is easy. What's harder is figuring out how to build her own life.