I then eagerly read Looking for Alaska and was disappointed and could never get into Paper Towns. I was that girl who googled “An Imperial Affliction” and was disappointed to learn it was not a real book. I was so into it that I even finished listening to the audiobook on the way to a wedding and arrived a mess-red faced and sobbing before the wedding ever started. I’m one of those cliché people that loved The Fault in Our Stars (and to be further cliché-that’s the book and most definitely not the movie).

With a focus on Aza but eyes on Davis and Daisy as well, Turtles is ultimately a story of what it means to be resilient, even when everything - your family, your friends, life circumstances, and even your own brain chemistry– are fighting against you.

Throughout Turtles, Aza vacillates between being defined and driven by her anxiety, OCD, and grief for her departed father and having moments of peace, during which she watches stars and eats Applebees with Davis Pickett, son of an eccentric billionaire who’s gone missing, and her best friend Daisy Ramirez, internet-famous author of Star Wars fanfic. Turtles All the Way Down is the story of Aza Holmes, a sixteen year old Indianapolis high school student with a crazy best friend and a raging complex of anxiety disorders. You get the pick the frame, you know? Maybe you don’t choose what’s in the picture, but you decide the frame.” You pick your endings, and your beginnings. Christ, I’m not asking if you’re a seventeenth-century nun.“I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.” Daisy says, “‘Well, of course you’ve seen one, Holmesy. It’s a real tragedy.” Or instead of saying hello she asks Holmesy, “Have you ever gotten a dick pic?” Holmesy says yes. She says, “I have the soul of a private jet owner, and the life of a public transportation rider.

Daisy works at Chuck E Cheese in Indianapolis where the acclaimed author lives. I want a girlfriend like Daisy who will make me laugh all the time. Daisy tells her, “You’re sung.” I love Daisy. When Aza tells Daisy she’s the unsung hero in the investigation. Aza and her best friend Daisy have a lead, but will Aza pursue the mystery and betray Miles and his younger disturbed brother, Noah?īest friend Daisy is a riot. Miles’s super-rich and super-corrupt father has gone missing and there’s a hundred thousand dollar reward to find him. Sixteen year old Aza is kind of smitten with Miles Pickett, who she’s known since they were little kids. T urtles All the Way Down (2017) by the acclaimed and very best selling young adult author, John Green, is the brilliant story of Aza Holmes who suffers acute anxiety.

Aza turtles all the way down