Hold Still Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction (2007) but harder than ever to

but harder than ever to be a leader or merely "average

and the assimilation required of immigrants—abandoning their language and culture

and how the most brilliant minds in the nation can only provide us with an illusion of control

Enter the second loop

an aspiring young— but somewhat aimless—professor at Oxford

Hold Still Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction (2007) but harder than ever toAn arresting story about starting over after a friend's suicide, from a breakthrough new voice in YA fictiondear caitlin, there are so many things that i want so badly to tell you but i just can't. Devastating, hopeful, hopeless, playful . . . in words and illustrations, Ingrid left behind a painful farewell in her journal for Caitlin. Now Caitlin is left alone, by loss and by choice, struggling to find renewed hope in the wake of her best friend's