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Writer of adult suspense and young adult novels.
AVOCATIONS:Playing music, cooking, reading, true crime.
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Contributor of short stories to outlets, including ZYZZYVA, PANK, and McSweeney’s online.
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Based in the Bay Area of San Francisco, Gardner writes young adult fiction, mystery, and romance. She also portrays adolescents dealing with issues of depression, substance abuse, and gun violence.
In the 2015 Perdita, an “edgy, intriguing debut novel of suspense, suspicion, and surprise,” according to a Kirkus Reviews critic, 16-year-old Arielle wakes from a nightmare and learns that her older sister Casey’s best friend, Perdita, was found drowned in a nearby lake. Police first think it was suicide but later determine it to be a homicide. Arielle understands the grief Perdita’s family is facing because Arielle’s brother drowned 10 years ago. Troubled by psychic episodes and fearing she’s going mad, Arielle believes that Perdita’s ghost is trying to communicate with her to solve her murder. Arielle also deals with adolescent issues, such as falling in love with Perdita’s brother, being alone after Casey goes off to college, and her parents downsizing into an apartment. “Gardner tackles death, grief, and mental health questions in her debut novel. She also weaves in friendship conflicts,” Jennifer Rummel reported in Voice of Youth Advocates.
Gardner’s next chilling novel, The Second Life of Ava Rivers, follows 18-year-old Vera Rivers as she is excited to start a new life preparing to off to college. She is escaping her distraught family who has spent the last 12 years searching for her fraternal twin Ava who went missing at age six on Halloween night. Now Ava has reappeared in a hospital, claiming that she was held hostage by a kidnapper all this time, but can’t remember what happened to her. As her family embraces Ava back into the family and Vera postpones college, Vera notices discrepancies in Ava’s story. Gardner’s “clever offering features a surprising twist and should leave readers ruminating over what truly defines family,” according to a Kirkus Reviews critic. In Publishers Weekly, a reviewer commented: “Fans of The Face on the Milk Carton and Room will revel in the book’s generous supply of suspense.”
Earning a starred review from Kirkus Reviews, Garner’s 2021 book, Girl on the Line, is “an achingly authentic depiction of cycling through depression and healing.” Bisexual and bipolar 18-year-old Journey Smith is teetering on the edge after a suicide attempt, following a devastating car accident and a breakup. She’s going through the motions taking college classes to get her high school diploma, working on a crisis hotline, and dating Etta. She struggles with depression, therapy, and psychiatric medications. Calling the book rough but deeply rewarding, a Publishers Weekly critic noted: “there is hope in its message that there is no singularly correct road to recovery.”
How We Ricochet follows a 18-year-old Betty as she confronts the tragedy of a mass shooting event. Betty is with her mom and older sister, Joy, shopping in the Bay Area mall when a gunman opens fire. Although unharmed, Betty’s family is forever changed by the repercussions. Her mother becomes an advocate for gun control; Joy, who saw the gunman kill himself in front of her, is afraid to leave the house and turns to alcohol; and Betty realizes how dangerous the world is as she strikes up a friendship with the shooter’s half-brother, Michael. In Kirkus Reviews, a critic commented: “An intelligent, expansive story of a family surviving the increasingly common unthinkable.” Writing in Publishers Weekly, a reviewer remarked that Betty has a “burning desire to understand why the event happened and whether it was preventable.”
A small town mystery leads to found family in Gardner’s If You Can Hear This. Posey Spade moves with her single newspaper editor father from San Franscisco to the small northern California town of Wild Pines. A journalist herself, she joins her new high school’s AV Club, led by well-liked faculty advisor, Ms. Moses. When Ms. Moses goes missing and the police are reluctant to investigate, Posey convinces the club members to start a news radio station to bring attention to the teacher’s disappearance. They begin to uncover strange clues about Ms. Moses’s life and start receiving death threats. “Witty banter shines in this nail-biting thriller from Gardner…, who utilizes an engaging premise that draws readers in,” observed a critic in Publishers Weekly. Although some plot threads go unresolved, “the large supporting cast is lovingly and individually characterized… A lackluster mystery that finds surer footing in its study of community,” according to a writer in Kirkus Reviews.
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Kirkus Reviews, May 15, 2015, review of Perdita; June 15, 2018, review of The Second Life of Ava Rivers; November 15, 2020, review of Girl on the Line; March 1, 2022, review of How We Ricochet; October 15, 2024, review of If You Can Hear This.
Publishers Weekly, June 11, 2018, review of The Second Life of Ava Rivers, p. 67; November 24, 2021, review of Girl on the Line, p. 102; April 4, 2022, review of How We Ricochet, p. 51; September 2, 2024, review of If You Can Hear This, p. 65.
Voice of Youth Advocates, August 2015, Jennifer Rummel, review of Perdita, p. 60.
ONLINE
Faith Gardner homepage, https://www.faithgardner.com/ (April 1, 2025).
Faith Gardner is the author of adult suspense and YA novels. When she’s not writing, she’s probably playing music, cooking up a storm, or reading books in a bubble bath. She’s also a huge fan of true crime, documentaries, and classic movies—with a special place in her dark little heart for melodrama and anything Hitchcock. She lives in the Bay Area with her family.
Faith Gardner
Faith Gardner is the author of the young adult novel Perdita. Her short fiction has been published in places like ZYZZYVA, PANK and McSweeney’s online. She lives in the Bay Area.
Genres: Mystery, Young Adult Fiction, Young Adult Romance
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Novels
Perdita (2015)
The Second Life of Ava Rivers (2018)
Girl on the Line (2021)
How We Ricochet (2022)
Like It Never Was (2024)
If You Can Hear This (2024)
The Mirror House Girls (2025)
Gardner, Faith IF YOU CAN HEAR THIS Harper/HarperCollins (Teen None) $19.99 11, 19 ISBN: 9780063347106
A beloved teacher's disappearance motivates a previously uninspired club to produce a controversial news show.
Posey Spade knew to expect culture shock when she moved with her newspaper editor dad from San Francisco to the small rustic town of Wild Pines, California. An aspiring journalist, Posey is undaunted by her new school's lack of a journalism department and the apathy of the students she meets in its recently formed AV club. But when Ms. Moses, the scrappy young teacher who sponsors the club, goes missing, neither the school administration nor the local police department seem eager to act. The AV club members, who are devoted to Ms. Moses, launch an investigative news show to raise awareness of her case. But the more they dig into Ms. Moses' personal life, the more questions they unearth and resistance they encounter. Some plot threads are never fleshed out, and as a result, the story functions less as the mystery it presents itself as and more as a tender depiction of found family. Posey is also more audience stand-in than a fully realized person, but the large supporting cast is lovingly and individually characterized. Most residents of Wild Pines are described as white, a fact addressed by one biracial member of the AV club. Many club members are queer, including Posey, who identifies as "bisexual and/or pansexual."
A lackluster mystery that finds surer footing in its study of community.(Mystery. 13-17)
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"Gardner, Faith: IF YOU CAN HEAR THIS." Kirkus Reviews, 15 Oct. 2024. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A811898502/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=ff5df04f. Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.
If You Can Hear This
Faith Gardner. HarperCollins, $19.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-334710-6
Having just moved from San Francisco to Northern California with her single father, aspiring journalist Posey Spade is determined to make news (and maybe some friends) by joining Wild Pines High School's AV club. Posey, already an awardwinning teen journalist, arrives with a plan (and a slide show) to spur the "juvenile delinquent" club members into action. But when the group's faculty sponsor disappears and the local police fail to pursue leads, Posey pivots and encourages the club to launch its own investigation, a decision that puts their own lives on the line as they field anonymous death threats from a purported serial killer. While Posey never solves the "looming, ever-present" riddle of her mother's distance nor the puzzle of her guarded feelings for a fellow group member, the mystery of the AV club adviser's disappearance resolves with upbeat, positive energy. Witty banter shines in this nail-biting thriller from Gardner (How We Ricochet), who utilizes an engaging premise that draws readers in--but it's the quirky characters and unexpected friendships that keep the pages turning. "Bisexual and/or pansexual" Posey cues as white; supporting characters are intersectionally diverse. Ages 13-up. (Nov.)
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"If You Can Hear This." Publishers Weekly, vol. 271, no. 33, 2 Sept. 2024, p. 65. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A812513350/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=62510aba. Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.
Faith Gardner. HarperTeen, $17.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-302235-5
Gardner (Girl on the Line) portrays complex, vulnerable characters navigating the aftermath of gun violence in this emotionally charged novel. On the day of a Bay Area mall shooting, 18-year-old Betty is helpless to do anything, awaiting the fate of her mother and older sister Joy, who are trapped inside the same store as the shooter. Though physically unharmed, the cued-white family is left untethered by the experience. Betty's mother becomes a fierce advocate for gun control, compromising her relationship with her daughters; Joy, 21, refuses to leave their Berkeley apartment and develops a reliance on alcohol and prescription medication; and Betty, compelled to learn more about the shooter and why he died by suicide in front of Joy after the incident, seeks out his half-white, half-Indian American brother Michael, 17, a former classmate. As their unlikely friendship develops, stirring unexpected feelings in Betty, and tension within the family builds to a dramatic climax, Betty struggles to come to terms with "how dangerous the world really is." Though the story is told from Betty's point of view, her mother's fury and her sister's terror are as palpable as Betty's burning desire to understand why the event happened and whether it was preventable. Ages 13-up. (May)
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"How We Ricochet." Publishers Weekly, vol. 269, no. 14, 4 Apr. 2022, p. 51. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A700952555/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=982e47ee. Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.
Gardner, Faith HOW WE RICOCHET HarperTeen (Teen None) $17.99 5, 24 ISBN: 978-0-06-302235-5
A random shooting changes the trajectories of three women's lives in this contemporary novel set in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Betty is a recent high school graduate from a working-class family who is engaged in an unpaid internship. One day, she, her mom, and her older sister, Joy, make an uncharacteristic stop at the mall and encounter the most harrowing experience of their lives. Betty's mother and sister are trapped, hiding in a clothing store, while Betty, who was next door eating a cupcake, runs toward them when she hears shots. Joy witnesses the shooter kill himself right in front of her. The months that follow are divided into three parts as Joy struggles with agoraphobia and substance use disorder, their mother channels her feelings into gun control activism, and Betty tries to hold everyone together even as her long-absent father disappoints her all over again. Betty's incisive and sarcastic yet vulnerable narrative voice captures this exploration of trauma realistically, imbuing it with humor and authentic desperation and grief. A relationship she strikes up with Michael, the shooter's half brother, feels a bit too obviously a plot device in places, but their warm, witty exchanges strike just the right chord, and readers will root for them to become more than friends. Most main characters are White; biracial Michael's father is Indian American. Both Betty and Michael are pansexual.
An intelligent, expansive story of a family surviving the increasingly common unthinkable. (Fiction. 14-18)
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"Gardner, Faith: HOW WE RICOCHET." Kirkus Reviews, 1 Mar. 2022. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A695027128/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=1fb83042. Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.
Faith Gardner. HarperTeen, $17.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-0630-2230-0
Bisexual 18-year-old Journey Smith is trying to piece her life back together after a suicide attempt. Classes at the local city college; a new friendship with her crush, Etta; and a volunteer job at a crisis hotline provide moments of genuine happiness, but recovery is neither simple nor straightforward. She doubts her bipolar diagnosis, is still haunted by the breakup and traumatic car accident that led to her downward spiral, and struggles to rebuild relationships with loved ones. Journey is a sarcastic poet, and her voice reflects that, shifting seamlessly from resonant prose to humorous observation ("Everyone keeps asking how I'm doing and I say fine. Fine can also mean a very small particle, you know"). Alternating between the past--the days immediately following Journey's hospitalization--and the present several months later, the narrative also includes Journey's frequent addresses to her past and future selves, reinforcing the oftennonlinear nature of healing. There are no easy answers in Gardner's (The Second Life of Ava Rivers) rough but deeply rewarding latest, but there is hope in its message that there is no singularly correct road to recovery--and that the journey is worthwhile. Ages 13-up.
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"Girl on the Line." Publishers Weekly, vol. 268, no. 48, 24 Nov. 2021, p. 102. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A686559770/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=77a96010. Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.
Gardner, Faith GIRL ON THE LINE HarperTeen (Teen None) $17.99 1, 19 ISBN: 978-0-06-302230-0
An achingly authentic depiction of cycling through depression and healing.
Journey has just survived a suicide attempt, and her attempts to pick up her life again range from volunteering at a crisis hotline to avoiding her close friend Marisol and ex-boyfriend, Jonah, and taking classes at a community college that will double as credits to finish high school. She develops a crush on her classmate Etta, which is requited, but her depression and struggle with therapy and psychiatric medications make bisexual Journey feel like too much of a burden to be in a relationship, much as she longs to be her girlfriend. Her divorced parents are reeling from Journey’s trauma, rare parents in YA who are as multidimensional as the teens. The story is told in an alternating past/present format, though present-tense narration throughout and unsteady pacing make that hard to follow. Gardner’s depiction of mental illness, both through Journey’s own continual suicidal ideation and her therapists’ and doctors’ explanations of the difference between ideation and attempt, is deft and thoughtful. Trigger warnings are absolutely necessary, but the masterful handling gives the book bibliotherapeutic potential for readers struggling with the same issues or those who want to better understand the Journeys in their lives. Most characters are coded White; Etta has brown skin, and cosmopolitan, multilingual Marisol is French and Puerto Rican.
An incredibly tough but worthwhile read. (author's note) (Fiction. 15-adult)
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"Gardner, Faith: GIRL ON THE LINE." Kirkus Reviews, 15 Nov. 2020. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A641314169/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=f714f4f9. Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.
Gardner, Faith THE SECOND LIFE OF AVA RIVERS Razorbill/Penguin (Young Adult Fiction) $17.99 8, 28 ISBN: 978-0-451-47830-6
A teen girl's life is turned upside down when her missing twin reappears after 12 years.
Ava Rivers, the blonde fraternal twin of auburn-haired Vera, went missing one Halloween night, fracturing her otherwise harmonious family. After Ava's disappearance, the girls' brother, Elliott, spends his days living a drug-fueled and rather aimless life; their father quits his job and moves into the family basement, chain-smoking and scouring the Internet for leads about Ava; and their perfectly polished mother crams her days full of high-profile philanthropic events. Wonderfully snarky-voiced Vera is counting the days until she can move from her stifling home in laid-back Berkeley to attend college in Portland, Oregon. However, when Ava suddenly comes back, the Rivers' lives are seemingly put on hold. Ava's return brings about many changes for Vera--she defers college; rekindles a relationship with Max, Ava's African-American childhood best friend; and eventually pulls her family back together--but she struggles to familiarize herself with a person who is both a stranger and an intrinsic part of herself. An unconventional take on the well-trod subject of kidnapping, Gardner's (Perdita, 2015, etc.) clever offering features a surprising twist and should leave readers ruminating over what truly defines family. Vera is bisexual (as is her male love interest), and she and her sister are multiracial (white father, half Iranian/half Mexican mother).
A deftly written examination of familial relationships, trauma, and post-adolescence. (Fiction. 14-adult)
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"Gardner, Faith: THE SECOND LIFE OF AVA RIVERS." Kirkus Reviews, 15 June 2018. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A543008911/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=a7c066d6. Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.
The Second Life of Ava Rivers
Faith Gardner. Razorbill, $17.99 (352p)
ISBN 978-0-451-47830-6
Almost 12 years earlier, Vera's family was shattered when Ava, Vera's six-year-old fraternal twin sister, disappeared. Since then, Vejra's parents have been distant and she keeps to herself at school. But everything abruptly changes when Ava, who has been imprisoned by a kidnapper for more than a decade, is found and returns home. Now, Vera's mother and father begin to act like parents again; her estranged older brother (who, like the rest of the family, blamed himself for Ava's disappearance) comes for visits; and Ava's childhood friend, Max, is back in their lives. Still, there are unanswered questions: Why doesn't Ava remember her childhood? And why is she reluctant to give information about her kidnapper, whose whereabouts are unknown? Gardner (Perdita) shows compassion as she delves into Vera's emotions and Ava's complicated sensibility while making potentially sensational subject matter seem plausible. Fans of The Face on the Milk Carton and Room will revel in the book's generous supply of suspense, and although readers may separate truth from lies long before the characters do, they will stay anxiously glued to the pages. Ages 14--up. Agent: Claire Anderson-Wheeler, Regal Hoffmann and Assoc. (Aug.)
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"The Second Life of Ava Rivers." Publishers Weekly, vol. 265, no. 24, 11 June 2018, p. 67. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A542967390/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=7502e4a1. Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.
Gardner, Faith. The Second Life of Ava Rivers. Razorbill/Penguin Random House, August 2018. 384p. $17.99. 978-0-45147830-6.
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Eighteen-year-old Vera Rivers has been living with tragedy since the disappearance of her fraternal twin sister, Ava, one Halloween night when both were six. Vera became "invisible" within a new family dynamic focused on finding Ava. Now, preparing to enter college, Vera joyously anticipates a new life of her own, a life free from the anxiety-ridden atmosphere that has poisoned her parents and her older brother. Her world shifts when a young woman resembling Ava, a teenager locked away in a pervert's attic since childhood, surfaces as a confused accident victim. The new "Ava" is immediately claimed by the Rivers who focus on the process of healing her, a process that falls mainly on Veras shoulders. While Vera vacillates between joy at finding her sister and sadness at the loss of her college dreams, she wonders about discrepancies and inconsistencies in Ava's memories and wrestles with her own strong attraction to their childhood friend, Max.
This remarkable novel reproduces the personal and family trauma associated with the loss and recovery of a missing child. Vera, interrupted on her journey of self-discovery, narrates events in an authentic voice that realistically brings readers to a surprising conclusion. The San Francisco setting and the element of mystery surrounding Ava's past make the story even more captivating. The Second Life of Ava Rivers is an enthralling tale of grief and trauma suitable for all teen (and adult) readers. --Laura Woodruff.
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Woodruff, Laura. "Gardner, Faith. The Second Life of Ava Rivers." Voice of Youth Advocates, vol. 41, no. 2, June 2018, p. 56. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A545022891/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=aa8bd6a7. Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.
Gardner, Faith. Perdita. Merit Press, 2015. 224p. $17.99. 978-1-4405-8811-2.
After waking up early from a nightmare, Arielle walks down the road towards the lake. She notices police cars and crime scene tape. She witnesses a body pulled out of the water, a body she recognizes. It is her sister Casey's best friend, Perdita. Once again, grief strikes her family. After losing her brother ten years ago in a drowning accident, she understands what Perdita's family is going through. At first, the police think it was suicide, but later they begin to suspect foul play. Arielle begins having strange episodes, believing she is communicating with ghosts. Could Perdita be trying to tell her something?
Gardner tackles death, grief, and mental health questions in her debut novel. She also weaves in friendship conflicts after one friend changes herself completely for a boy. Gardner discusses sibling relationships, cyber bullying, and how a perception of a person changes over time. Add in a romance for Arielle with the dead girl's brother and it seems like too many plot points, but they are tied together nicely and blend well to make a page-turner. Even though it handles so many subjects, this book is essentially a murder mystery. After several false leads, the plot twist will surprise readers.--Jennifer Rummel.
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Rummel, Jennifer. "Gardner, Faith. Perdita." Voice of Youth Advocates, vol. 38, no. 3, Aug. 2015, p. 60. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A425811427/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=1fc27928. Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.
Gardner, Faith PERDITA Merit Press (Children's Fiction) $17.99 8, 1 ISBN: 978-1-4405-8811-2
When she starts seeing the ghost of her sister's recently drowned friend, troubled 16-year-old Arielle worries she may be "a little bit crazy." Sensitive, imaginative Arielle believes in ghosts, in contrast to her annoying, brainy older sister, Casey. The suspicious lakeside drowning in contemporary Velero, California, of Casey's former friend, Perdita, triggers unresolved issues for Arielle and her family members, who have never recovered from her older brother's drowning 10 years ago. Haunted by Perdita in bizarre dreams and strange visions, Arielle has trouble "telling the difference between sleep and wakefulness." Grappling with intensifying psychic episodes and wondering who murdered Perdita, Arielle finds her shaky emotional balance further unsettled by Casey's departure for college, her family's downsizing move into an apartment, her best friend's unexpected defection, and her own attraction to Perdita's handsome brother. Sad, frightened, disoriented, confused, and abandoned, Arielle describes, in an intimate, fascinating, gripping first-person narration, how her "world seems to be crawling toward something different" as she descends into what she fears is insanity. The unexpected answers to what really happened to Perdita and what's really happening to Arielle will shock readers as much as they do Arielle. An edgy, intriguing debut novel of suspense, suspicion, and surprise. (Suspense. 14-18)
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"Gardner, Faith: PERDITA." Kirkus Reviews, 15 May 2015. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A413234287/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=86ef925a. Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.