It also touches on how hard it is to watch someone you love suffer.

Turtles addresses the challenges of mental illness and the loss of important people in our lives. Green’s novels also resonate because he tackles tough issues, like pain, loss, and suffering. The language of pain, and how difficult it is to find words to describe psychic pain.The sky, the stars, the planets and how small we are compared to the vastness of the universe.This imagery takes on special importance late in the novel when a phone screen is shattered, like bare tree branches dividing the sky. The image of looking up through bare tree branches.The title of the novel, Turtles all the Way Down, alludes to the futility of trying to find an end to those thought spirals. Spirals, as in thought spirals, as in the uncontrollable thoughts that hijack Aza’s consciousness and interrupt her daily life.Like my daughter said, Green includes not just one, but several themes and motifs in his story to deepen the meaning. However, unlike the detectives in movies and TV who have mental illnesses, Aza’s OCD does not help her solve the mystery.

Millionaire Russell Pickett, the father of her childhood friend Davis, has disappeared, and Aza and her best friend Daisy want to find him. Turtles All the Way Down is a young adult contemporary story of Aza Holmes, a 16 year old girl trying to solve a mystery while struggling to manage her mental illness. My daughter claims that John Green’s books are so good because “he usually has a deep theme he alludes to, but doesn’t hit you over the head with it, and it’s not too cheesy.” I’m in the middle of editing one of my YA novels, and I eagerly read (listened to) Green’s latest release, Turtles All the Way Down, to figure out what makes his work resonate with so many people.

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