High: Mary Sullivan in Conversation with Maria Kiely

All She Wrote Books welcomes Mary Sullivan in conversation with Maria Kiely for a celebration of HIGH: A Novel. HIGH is a young adult novel in verse that features fourteen-year-old Ceti, who is a star on the soccer field but struggles at home with her mother's heroin addiction.

It is impossible not to root for Ceti, almost fifteen, who tells her story of growing up in shelters, learning soccer from Gramps, and sleeping in her mom's red truck. Following in the steps of her hero, Lionel Messi, Ceti is a shooting star on the soccer field. A U.S. scout is coming to watch her play in the State Championship; she has Ruby, her best friend since kindergarten, rooting for her, and a crush on a boy who lives in her building. But at home, she'll find a spoon in the sink, a ball of tin foil and a needle in…