The Bibliophile's Bookshelf

It’s time for another Saturday Spotlight! This month’s theme is Disability Representation. This month I have shared Finian de Seel from The Aurora Cycle, Kaz Brekker from Six of Crows, and Harriet Manners from Geek Girl. You can find those posts here, here, and here.

This week I am talking about Aza Holmes from Turtles All the Way Down by John Green!

This book has wonderful OCD representation! This book really gets down to what it’s like to have OCD, and it is beautifully done. Aza goes through a lot in this book, trying to deal with her OCD. It is realistic to what it’s like to live with OCD and the story is moving as you watch her learn tools to live with this. Beautifully done, Turtles All the Way Down is a wonderful book with amazing OCD representation!

JOHN GREEN, the acclaimed author of Looking for Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars, returns with a story of shattering, unflinching clarity in this brilliant novel of love, resilience, and the power of lifelong friendship.

Aza Holmes never intended to pursue the disappearance of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there’s a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Pickett’s son Davis.

Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.