The Immeasurable Depth of You by Maria Ingrande Mora

Title: The Immeasurable Depth of You
Release date: April 4, 2023
Setting: Florida
Genre: YA
Means of reading: E-ARC
Content Warnings: Anxiety, depression, mentions of suicide
Review:

THE IMMEASURABLE DEPTH OF YOU follows Brynn who lives with anxiety and OCD, through a summer without internet after Brynn’s online best friend raises the alarm on a worrying Tumblr post Brynn made. 

Brynn is convinced her summer will drag by, but on her very first day, she meets a fellow teen Skylar while paddleboarding. Skylar is everything Brynn doesn’t understand how to be, confident, athletic, and comfortable with herself. Discovering Skylar has a secret, Brynn makes it her summer mission to get to the bottom of a mystery she cannot tell anyone about, all while under the watchful eye of her dad and his new girlfriend.

Author Maria Ingrande Mora’s content note at the beginning of the book reminds the reader to stop reading, or not read altogether if they’re not ready for a book that deals so explicitly with anxiety and mental illness.

And it’s not without reason. Brynn has several mental illness diagnoses and we get a very intimate look at how anxiety and obsessive thinking can easily spiral into panic attacks and misinterpretation of situations. It was so well written, and a beautiful unfolding of a story about pain, mental health, and slowly learning to face the ‘what if’ of painful thoughts.

I loved this book and recommend reading it if you’re in a good headspace for this kind of story.