The Horn Book Guide

OLDER FICTION

Capetta, Amy Rose

The Lost Coast

342 pp. | Candlewick | May, 2019 | Trade ISBN 978-1-5362-0096-6 $17.99

(2) YA High schooler Danny and her mom arrive in Tempest, California, under mysterious circumstances. There, Danny meets a group of queer girls called the Grays, who weave magic in "a braid of traditions." The Grays need help: their most powerful member has become distant and her magic unresponsive. Capetta organically alternates narrative perspectives and time periods in this atmospheric story that thought-provokingly explores the magic within young women and in women loving women.

Reviewer: Jeannie Coutant | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2019