Overview

When Hannah Winters loses her grandfather—the one person who truly understood her—she also loses the music that used to help her speak. Starting college with a violin case in one hand and her carefully managed panic in the other, Hannah is determined to follow the plan they made together.

But everything at Westbrook University is louder than expected. Her roommates are strangers. The dining hall is chaos. And her words still falter in her throat.

As the semester unfolds, Hannah learns to navigate life without the one person who always translated the world for her. With quiet courage, unexpected friendship, and the music she’s afraid to share, she begins to find her place - not by becoming someone new, but by daring to be fully herself.

For readers of Eliza and Her Monsters, Turtles All the Way Down, and Fangirl, Are the Mermaids Singing? is a tender, luminous coming-of-age story about grief, anxiety, music, and the search for connection in a world that often misunderstands quiet girls.