The Lost and Found
Sometimes you have to get lost before you can be found.
Lost: Frannie and Louis met in an online support group for trauma survivors when they were both little and have been pen pals ever since. They have never met face-to-face. They don’t even know each other’s real names. All they know is that they understand each other better than anyone else. And they both have a tendency to lose things. Well, not lose them, exactly. Things just seem to... disappear.
Found: In Louis’s mailbox is a letter, offering him a tennis scholarship — farther from home than he’s ever allowed himself to think of going.
In Frannie’s mailbox is a letter, informing her of her mother’s death — and one last wish.
Setting off from opposite coasts, Frannie and Louis each embark on a road trip to Austin, Texas, looking for answers — and each other. Along the way, each one begins to find important things the other has lost. And by the time they finally meet in person, they realize that the things you lose might be things you weren’t meant to have at all, and that you never know what you might find if you just take a chance.
Katrina Leno
Katrina Leno is the author of Everything All at Once, The Lost & Found, The Half Life of Molly Pierce, and Summer of Salt. In real life, she lives in Los Angeles. But in her head, she lives on an imaginary island off the coast of New England where it sometimes rains a lot.