At the start of his senior year Henry is offered the job, but there’s a catch: transfer student Grace Town is offered the gig as well, making the two white teens co-editors. Henry Page has spent his high school years with his nose to the grindstone, avoiding romantic relationships and focusing on becoming the editor of the school paper. Two teenagers suffer through their first heartbreak. There is a little diversity among the non-Greek supporting cast. The search for Atlantis and information about Greek philosophers add interest to the sweet, if at times predictable, story.
Her recounting throughout of the 26 items her father left behind when he walked away from their family, and which Liv secreted in a shoebox under her bed, provides insight into his imprint on her memory, but their impending reconciliation requires a deeper dive and Liv has always stayed at the surface when it comes to Nico. They are working on a documentary detailing Nico’s Atlantean theories for National Geographic, an endeavor Liv finds both exciting and panic-inducing. But at her mother’s insistence that she try to reconnect with him, Liv finds herself in beautiful Santorini, joining her father’s filmmaking crew and sharing a bunk in a bookstore with his assistant, Theo-a Greek teenager who charms her instantly. His latest is an invitation to visit him in Greece, and she is quick to decline. His kitschy postcards, which suddenly started arriving two years ago, only make her feel worse. The symbolism of dreaming about drowning while searching for the lost city of Atlantis, a mission her father, Nico Varanakis, has dedicated his life to, is impossible to ignore.
Recurring nightmares remind Olive-who has carved out a new, post-dad identity as Liv-about why she doesn’t talk about her father anymore.
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