Love Is Both Wave and Particle

This young adult novel explores a tender love story between two gifted students attending a specialized high school in Ithaca, New York. Both protagonists navigate psychiatric disabilities while collaborating on a year-long senior project: to write their life stories as seen through the eyes of those who know them. The book offers a poignant and hopeful look at self-discovery, connection, and the complexities of mental health in adolescence, providing representation and fostering empathy.

In this love story set in Ithaca, New York, at an alternative high school whose two requirements for admisstion are academic excellence and psychiatric disability, a boy and girl work on their year-long senior project to write their life stories as informed by the points-of-view of people who have known them through their lives.