Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined

A girl must survive an extreme wilderness experience to prove to her mother that she has the strength to pursue her dreams."A heart-pounding wilderness adventure set against a deeply moving personal journey."-Teresa Toten, author of The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B"A gorgeous novel about mothers and daughters, the wilderness that rages both inside and outside of us-and how the past composes the future."-Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Is This TomorrowThen: Ingrid traveled all over Europe with her opera star mother, Margot-Sophia.
Life was beautiful and bright, and every day soared with music. Now: Ingrid is on a summertime wilderness survival trek for at-risk teens: addicts, runaways, and her. She's fighting to survive crushing humiliations, physical challenges that push her to her limits, and mind games that threaten to break her. Then: When the curtain fell on Margot-Sophia's singing career, they buried the past and settled into a small, painfully normal life.
But Ingrid longed to let the music soar again. She wanted it so much that, for a while, nothing else mattered. Now: Ingrid is never going to make it through this summer if she can't figure out why she's here .