Ten years ago, Teddy's older sister Angie went missing. After a decade of obsessive searching for her, Teddy's dad has given up, committing suicide by driving his car off a bridge. Now Teddy and her mother are trying to deal with the compounded grief and the mess Teddy's dad left behind. But as she starts to go through his things, Teddy gets sucked into the search for Angie, particularly the online cold-case communities and a young woman who had helped Teddy's dad with the search.
While there is a mystery in this book, the main theme is Teddy's grief, and the ways in which she is poorly attempting to manage it. It's not a cheerful story by any means, and SPOILER ALERT doesn't have the happiest ending, but it is a very gritty and realistic look at grief and dealing with the trauma of the past. I'd recommend it for fans of Long Bright River by Liz Moore, and for those who are intrigued by unlikeable protagonists.
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