A review by sc104906
Essential Maps for the Lost by Deb Caletti

3.0

Mads has gone away to live with her aunt, uncle, and cousin, for the summer so that she can go to college to get her real estate license. It is with this education under her belt that she is expected to return home and take over her mother’s real estate business because it is just too much for her mother. Mads is learning to adjust to her independence from her mother, when she finds a body on the beach. Mads becomes obsessed with the woman, her suicide, and her life. As Mads is stalking the woman’s old home, she crosses paths with Billy, the son of the woman. While neither knows their connection to the other, each works to overcome their family struggles and find their way in the world.