From a star YA writer Francesca Lia Block, author of the "Weetzie Bat" books, comes an adult novel about a student, haunted by the disappearance of a friend, who must face the truth

"The Elementals" is on one level an intriguing coming-of-age novel about a young woman, Ariel Silverman, facing the challenges of her first years away at college in Berkeley, California, while her mother battles cancer at home in Los Angeles. But the book takes on deeper, stranger meanings when we realize that Ariel is haunted by the disappearance of her best friend, Jeni, who vanished without a trace a few...