The Lost Files of a Teenage Girl($9.99Value)

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For Alyssa E. Thomas, novels are easy. Poetry is honest. Lost Files of a Teenage Girl is a collection of poems written throughout high school, documenting the messy, nonlinear process of growing up. Organized into four "files"—Love/Obsession, Collapse/Rot, Searching/Myth, and Becoming—this collection explores first love, heartbreak, loneliness, mental health, healing, identity, friendship, and the journey toward self-acceptance. Written over the course of several years and preserved like entries from a forgotten notes app or journal, these poems are raw, vulnerable, and deeply personal. Some are hopeful. Some are uncomfortable. Many were written in the middle of the night by a girl trying to make sense of herself and the world around her. For anyone who has ever felt too much, loved too hard, or wondered if they would ever become the person they were meant to be, these pages are for you. Because healing is rarely linear. And becoming is its own kind of magic.