Holloway, Elana K. Arnold
Holloway, Elana K. Arnold
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Holloway

Author: Elana K. Arnold

Narrator: Kira Fixx

Unabridged: 11 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Clarion Books

Published: 05/05/2026

Synopsis

“Elana K. Arnold paints prose like a master. A fascinating journey through time, love, and forgiveness.” – A.S. King, Printz Award-winning author of DigAward-winning author Elana K. Arnold returns with a boldly visionary, deeply felt story that crosses space and time to examine loss and love in a world on the brink.It is the late summer of 2021, and a girl named Nora is on the Paris Metro.Nora, whose mother loved her, even though Nora was broken.Nora, who couldn’t help her mother when her mother needed her most.Nora, from whom the pandemic has taken nearly everything, save the object she clings to: a cylinder containing her mother’s ashes.With no family left, no friends to speak of, and no way to turn back time, Nora has come to France to keep a promise she never got to make: to spread the ashes in a place her mother never got to see. But instead, Nora finds herself on the run through a forest in the night, taking refuge in a dark holloway. And when she wakes, and tries to make her way back to something she recognizes, she realizes that is impossible. Because it is no longer 2021.Questioning everything—including her own sanity—Nora sets out on a journey through a time and place completely foreign to her, and yet one that, much like the time and place she came from, is defined by death, loss, fear, and uncertainty. A journey in which she must find a way to honor her mother—and heal herself—in a world that feels irrevocably broken.

About Elana K. Arnold

Elana K. Arnold is the award-winning author of many books for children and teens, including the Sydney Taylor and National Jewish Book Award winner The Blood Years, the Printz Honor winner Damsel, the National Book Award finalist What Girls Are Made Of, and the Global Read Aloud selection A Boy Called Bat. She lives in Long Beach, California, with her husband, two children, and a menagerie of animals. You can find her online at elanakarnold.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lisa on May 07, 2026

Neurodivergent time traveler Wow. This book kind of blew me away. Post pandemic and Nora is all alone. No family, no home- Just a bamboo cylinder containing her mother's ashes and a heavy guilt upon her shoulders. She is determined to spend the last of her money to scatter her mom's ashes in France-......more

Goodreads review by Chris G. on March 04, 2026

Covid’s isolation was a bit of a boon to autistic Nora; she revels in great swaths of time to lose herself in her art. Her relationship with her mother is complicated by her mother’s early abandonment of her, leaving her in the care of her now-dead grandmother. When her mother dies of Covid, Nora se......more

Goodreads review by Kim on March 19, 2026

Extraordinary and evocative. I enjoyed Arnold’s other books, but this one— wow. The ways Nora navigates her relationship with her mother and her place in a world that doesn’t have patience for people with autism… the feelings of utter aloneness after Gillian refuses the Covid vaccine and dies… Nora’......more

Goodreads review by Bugs on May 11, 2026

Just this... "If you’re lucky enough to find people who love you, people you can love in return . . . does it really matter where they are? Or when? Maybe time, like love, isn’t a straight line. Maybe it’s a curve and an arc and a spiral, too. Maybe it’s a cord wrapped around the neck of a half-birth......more

Goodreads review by Ella :) on April 29, 2026

Review of an ARC from mermaid books youth advisory board In this gem of a book, Elana K Arnold takes you through a world where time bends, slipping from one year to another. This book explores themes of time travel, love, and loss. Taking you through the philosophical mind of an autistic 18 year old......more

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