To get back up sometimes you have to fall down, hard . . .
What's the point of pretending nothing has changed when everything has?
It's the last summer before college, and Jonas Avery knows he should be
excited. Instead, he hides out at home, avoiding his friends, his
family, and everything that resembles his old life. Because nothing will
be normal again--because of The Accident, when everything started
falling apart.
Brennan Davis knows she needs to stand up and face her anxiety--the
deep, dark, debilitating dread that rules her everyday life. Because
what stops her from going out into the world and just living is going to
get a whole lot worse. She's leaving for college in the fall, where
she'll be confronted with even more to worry about.
When Jonas crashes into Brennan--in a harmless, albeit embarrassing
fender bender--the two teens connect in ways they never expected. As
friends, they help each other overcome their biggest falls and faults,
and soon discover that while love can't fix everything, it's sometimes a
place to start.
Sensitive, wry, and unabashedly authentic, The Opposite of Falling Apart
isn't about finding perfection in another person or fixing the things we
think are broken. Instead, Micah Good has penned an enchantingly honest
novel about accepting the very pieces of ourselves that make us unique,
whole, and undeniably human.