Private Way

2023 Nebraska Book Award In 2015, when cyberbullies disrupt her life in Southern California, Vivi Marx decides to cut her cord with the internet and take her life offline for a year. She flees to the one place where she felt safe as a childwith her grandmother in Lincoln, Nebraska. Nevermind that her grandmother is long dead and she doesnt know anyone else in the state. Even before she meets her new neighbors on Fieldcrest Drive, Vivi knows shes made a terrible mistake, but every plan she makes to leave is foiled. Despite her efforts to outrun it, trouble follows her to Nebraska, just not in the ways shed feared. With the help of her neighbors, Willa Cathers novels, and her own imagination, Vivi finds something she hadnt known she was searching for.