The Girl From the Sea, her new YA graphic novel from Scholastic, for a long time.“It's set on this island where I spent my summers.
My parents were both teachers, so they had the summers off and we would go up to Nova Scotia and be in this tiny little hut, like a fishing shack kind of on an island,” Ostertag tells The Advocate. “It was really rustic and rural and so beautiful.
But as I got older, it got really lonely. So I had a lot of fantasies of meeting people and just getting swept off on a whirlwind romance or even friendship, just that kind of fantasy of having someone appear and just be there for you.”That’s exactly what happens to 15-year-old Morgan, the protagonist of The Girl From the Sea.