The Weight of a Bubble

Willow Edwards is one hundred seventy-two years, three months, a week and six days old, and has repeated the tenth grade one hundred fifty-seven times in the same school, forced to wipe the memory of her from the minds of her classmates and teachers at the end of each year. She looks, speaks and acts as though she is still fifteen as the world around her changes: houses get torn down and replaced with skyscrapers, streets become paved and widened. The reason for this? She is a Catcher, one who finds and captures premature ideas and dreams to release back into mankind when the time is ripe. Willow has gone for the last century and a half without a problem, until she meets Lincoln Brewster (nicknamed Link after his favourite character from Legend of Zelda), a cocky, mischievous boy who turns Willow's mission upside-down as he stays back in tenth grade and remembers who she was. Soon, Willow and Lincoln become friends and discover a threat to the Worldwide Organization of the Catchers and Preservers of Ideas and Dreams - from the inside. To expel it, Willow is forced to use the power that made her a Catcher, one that she tried to keep hidden from everyone's view. Along with the help of a blind girl and Link, Willow is faced with questions that she never dreamed that she would have to answer: what is her purpose? Does catching have a reason? And will she be able to do the right thing when the time comes?