02254cam a22003378i 4500 14228244 20260306114009.0 250721s2025 bcc j 000 f eng 20240445813 can 9781551529813 (softcover) 1551529815 (softcover) (OCoLC)on1450563836 (CaBVaU)14228244 NLC eng NLC rda NLC OCLCO BDX YDX IG# HBP OCLCO IOD NLC MLSOD UBC UtOrBLW English lac PR9199.4.T37 D76 2025 PS8639.A685 D76 2025 PZ7.1.T373 Dr 2025 Taranto, Lea, author. 26826 A drop in the ocean : a novel / Lea Taranto 202505 Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2025] 294 pages ; 21 cm "An engaging YA novel about a girl in treatment for obsessive compulsive disorder that combats the dehumanizing stigma around mental illness. Sixteen-year-old Mira Durand has just been checked into the Residency Adolescent Treatment Centre for obsessive compulsive and comorbid disorders. Four years of being passed around different psych wards like a hot potato have only worsened her OCD and anorexia. Her brutal, religious compulsions, which she believes keep her mom safe, make her less of a clean freak and more of a freak freak. No wonder her only friend is her journal. At the Residency's Ward Two, Mira discovers that her shrink is a fellow fantasy nerd and that her wardmates have enough of their own high-risk behaviours to tolerate hers. The complex friendships she forms with them, including a first love, the slow trust she builds with her treatment team, and the outside and family visits she earns give her things to look forward to beyond the drudgery of her compulsions. But it takes visiting Gung-Gung, her dying maternal grandfather, for her to realize that to truly live, she must fight the cognitive distortions at the heart of her compulsions."-- Provided by publisher. Obsessive-compulsive disorder - Fiction. Fiction. Anorexia - Fiction. 26828 Mental illness - Fiction. 26829 Novels. lcgft 22644 lcc 0 0 lcc 0 0 TBS TBS 2026-03-06 0 2026-03-06 1 2026-03-06 1 SOON AVAILABLE 5393 5393