Julia keeps lists-lists of everything she loses. Eventually those lists include her dad and her home. Writing in her diary keeps her going but she'll need more than that to find the truth.
Foreword Review
The Everything I Have Lost captures a girl's blossoming understanding of violence, family dysfunction, and what it means to grow up.
Booklist
Zéleny's lively novel, written in the form of a diary, captures Julia's voice perfectly as she matures. Julia's life is very different from most readers, but Zéleny's approachable, inviting writing makes it resonant on a broad scale.-Donna Scanlon
Publishers Weekly
Conveying the grim challenges Julia faces, Zéleny creates a fierce, funny, and full-of-feeling protagonist whose staccato diary entries pull the reader along.
Latinx In Publishing
Sylvia Zéleny makes her claim as one of the true contemporary voices to be heard on the US Mexican border. Her powerful stories are not to be missed and will hold canon for many young readers looking to identify with text for and by their own culture?The Everything I Have Lost is a beautifully sublime story of a young girl coming of age en la frontera.-Chelsea Villarreal
YA Books Central
The journal format is perfect and is sure to resonate with readers. You're sucked right into Julia's life. -Kim Baccellia
Reading Style
Zéleny's prose is poignant and piercing in its honesty and humanity. A story that readers will not soon forget.-Barbara Moon
Midwest Book Review
[A]n inherently riveting read that radiates a realism that engages the reader's total engagement and absolute attention from first page to last.-Susan Bethany
