What We Buried

Sixteen-year-old reality TV star Liv is suing her parents for emancipation and her eighteen-year-old brother Jory, afflicted with partial facial paralysis from birth, views the entire situation as a spectacle, but on the day of the court hearing their parents vanish and as the siblings join forces on a road trip to locate their parents, they explore their own memories, relationships, and identities. This psychological thriller details the thoughts and actions of each sibling in a split narrative, and deals with contemporary issues of social media, pop culture, digital literacy, mental health, body image, and personal identity. Suitable as a class, literature circle, or individual novel.