Diana Farid

When her best friend's cancer returns in the summer of 1987, none of her usual pursuits--surfing, singing, or reading poetry--can keep thirteen-year-old Ava afloat.

"A poetic and visually breathtaking look at what happens inside your body when you breathe. What happens when you breathe? In this beautiful book, breath the very air, stardust, the grand molecules of the universe blossoms in the upside-down tree in your rising chest, animating and enlivening you. And when you breathe out, you send your song out into the world."--www.bookdepository.com.