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Graciela in the Abyss

by Meg Medina

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Book of the Day, NPR · September 11, 2025

In Meg Medina’s new young adult novel, a 13-year-old girl becomes a sea ghost

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A young adult novel in which 13-year-old Graciela is blown off a cliff and sucked to the bottom of the sea, awakening a century later to begin her afterlife among ghosts and spirits — a story that is ultimately about life itself.

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