Characters like Amy, Rose, Martin, Greg, Frederick, and Lola make-up the supporting cast. She has lost her brother, Cal, and the loss has paralyzed her, making it difficult to live again.

Rachel Sweetie is funny, smart, loyal, and a little over-organized. He believes that we leave parts of ourselves on the pages of the books that we read. George’s brother, Henry is gentle, funny, smelling of peppermint and cedar. Readers will find themselves touched by or connected to the characters Crowley creates: George Jones is a goth girl with a blue stripe in her hair, a girl who won’t change just to fit in, who is fascinated by characters who have lost everything or who live in a world where it’s dangerous to think for themselves. Whether readers actually write their thoughts or dreams, they leave behind a part of themselves in the experiences they share with an author’s characters. In the Letter Library, customers are allowed to write in the books they can circle words that they love, highlight lines, leave notes in the margins, or record thoughts about the meaning of life. The Jones family owns Howling Books-Sophia, Michael, George, and Henry all love books, and they share that passion with others, especially in the Letter Library of the bookshop. Not only the topics are fascinating, so are the characters. Although a simple-looking book on the surface, Words in Deep Blue packs a philosophically powerful punch by asking some tough questions, inviting the reader to wrestle with a variety of options about topics that matter, questions like: Are all worthwhile things-like love and the ocean’s depths-also terrifying? It poses some theories, too-about how people are like secondhand books, full of mysteries, or how science attracts us because it is rich with possibility. If you’re looking for a novel this summer that will inspire thought about all of life’s big topics, like love, sex, kissing, loss, and death, Cath Crowley’s Words in Deep Blue is that book.

Words in deep blue