Seventeen & Gone

Girls go missing every day.Girls make plans to go, but they also vanish without meaning to, and sometimes people confuse one for the other.

They slip out bedroom windows and into strange cars.

They cross borders. They hitch rides, squeezing themselves into overcrowded backseats, sitting on willing laps. And then there are the girls who never reach where they're going.

Who disappear.These girls are lost, and I'm the only one who's seen them.

I know their names.I want to tell everyone about these girls, about what's happening, I want to give warning, I want to give chase.

I'd do it, too, if I thought someone would believe me.With complexity and richness, bestselling YA author Nova Ren Suma serves up a beautiful, visual, fresh interpretation of what it means to be lost.