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Falling in love with Maia, hard and deeply, wasn’t something that Leigh Hunter wanted to do. He already had a beautiful, normal girlfriend, and Maia was anything but normal. Lovely, yes, but tortured, too. Maia sums herself up as, “…a bunch of parts that are a mess…Cutter, self-mutilator, anorexic, crazy, anxious, drunk girl.” But she intrigued and enchanted Leigh. His mother’s boyfriend described the attraction as, “A beautiful girl screaming trouble. I doubt there’s a man alive who could resist that at seventeen.” And so Leigh plunges in, despite Maia’s lack of encouragement, and finally wins her affection. But Leigh is in over in his head with Maia, and barely understands what she really needs. When he tries to come to her rescue, he instead botches everything, and brings their relationship to an end. This book is a rich exploration of Leigh’s complexity and intensity, and the depiction of Maia’s struggle with anorexia is heartbreaking. Freymann-Weyr is the Printz Honor Award winner of “My Heartbeat
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