Accidental Notes: A Novel
Accidental Notes
Back cover copy, content warnings, and table of contents
Back Cover Copy
Fifteen-year-old Adaya Finley has her life planned down to the second in her bullet journal. Piano practice. A normal, uneventful Christmas with her mom. And the most important audition she’s ever had for the school orchestra. Then her dad’s mother passes away. Having no choice but to leave her plans in California to travel to Oregon for the funeral, she hopes maybe this will be a chance to deepen her relationship with her father.
But life doesn’t seem to care about Adaya’s plans. Her father is even more distant, and her extended family obviously don’t want her there. She runs into Grayson, an ex-friend she never wanted to see again. Worse than all that, Adaya’s attempts at solacing herself by learning about her late grandmother lead to her learning a family secret that makes her question who she is to her family.
Music isn’t as dangerous and confusing as feelings. Music can be there for her when people aren’t. Soon Adaya learns music isn’t everything, and neither is the reconciliation she hoped for. But maybe changing the key of her life is the best thing she could do, if she can let go of her plans long enough to improvise.
Content Warnings
- mentions of off-page suicide
- abusive/gaslighting family
Table of Contents
Chapter 2: The Space between Us
Chapter 6: More than the Notes
Chapter 11: Where Things Get Buried
Chapter 12: The Way the World Looks Upside Down
Chapter 14: A Secret Worth Keeping
Chapter 16: Changing Everything
Chapter 17: Illuminating the Cracks
Chapter 20: Creatures Are Stirring
Chapter 23: Something to Practice
Chapter 25: The Last Blockbuster
Chapter 33: The Message in the Music
Chapter 36: An Audience of Ghosts