The Cartography of First Love

By Angela Grey

Tagline: First love leaves the deepest coordinates.

On the sterile walls of a small-city psychiatric ward, two teenagers sketch out a secret map of belonging. Zibby has been hospitalized for an eating disorder; Nico is struggling under the weight of depression and anxiety. Neither expected to find friendship, let alone something as fragile and fierce as love, between locked doors and therapy sessions.

For six luminous weeks, their days are measured ...