Hazel Bly was traumatized by the death of her mother during a kayak accident, which she blames herself for, to the point she develops a fear of bodies of water.
The central theme of Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea is grief, more specifically the loss of a parent at a young age. In this coastal town, Bly learns how to deal with the pain of having lost one of her mothers. It tells the story of Hazel Bly and her family as they arrive at Rose Harbor, Maine, having moved towns several times prior. To make it worse, she has a daughter Hazel's age, Lemon, who can't stop rambling on and on about the Rose Maid, a local 150-year-old mermaid myth.Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea is a middle grade fiction written by Ashley Herring Blake and published on May 25, 2021, by Little, Brown.
But when Mama runs into an old childhood friend-Claire-suddenly Hazel's tight-knit world is infiltrated. When the family arrives in Rose Harbor, Maine, there's a wildness to the small town that feels like magic. So for the last two years, the Bly girls have lived all over the country, never settling anywhere for more than a few months. After Mum's death, Hazel, her other mother, Mama, and her little sister, Peach, needed a fresh start. But when a kayaking trip goes horribly wrong, Mum is suddenly gone forever and Hazel is left with crippling anxiety and a jagged scar on her face. Hazel Bly used to live in the perfect house with the perfect family in sunny California. For fans of Erin Entrada Kelly and Ali Benjamin comes a poignant yet hopeful novel about a girl navigating grief, trauma, and friendship, from Ashley Herring Blake, the award-winning author of Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World.
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