I was sent here because of a boy. His name was Reeve Maxfield, and I loved him a
nd then he died, and almost a year passed and no one knew what to do with me. A
group of emotionally fragile, highly intelligent teenagers gather at a therapeut
ic boarding school where they are mysteriously picked for 'Special Topics in Eng
lish'.
Here, they are tasked with studying Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and ke
eping a journal. Each time the teens write in their diaries they are transported
to a miraculous other world called Belzhar, a world where they are no longer ha
unted by their trauma and grief - and each begins to tell their own story. From
internationally bestselling author Meg Wolitzer, and published by John Green's e
ditor, Belzhar is a breathtaking and surprising story about first love, deep sor
row, and the power of acceptance.
