I Have Lost My Way features three characters who still teenagers but are dealing with very adult problems and situations ranging from parental abandonment to mental health issues. Freya is a rising star in the music world but has been abandoned by a beloved father who encouraged her to sing in the first place, and her relationship with her sister was fractured on her way to fame. Harun is a young Muslim man who has fallen in love with another young man and is planning to use a wife-finding trip arranged by his family to flee instead of telling them the truth. Nathaniel probably would have been the stereotypical jock , middle class white kid if not for his parents split leaving him with a dad who is definitely unhinged, but is revered by Nathaniel. They run into each other in New York City after a strange accident and spend the entire day together, recognizing they have things inside and out that need to be fixed, and learning from each other how to do that. My initial assumptions about the book - that Freya was a shallow brat, that Nathaniel would be one-dimensional - were certainly wrong. Harun wanted to be a commercial pilot but hid that dream along with his sexuality because of his religion, his name, and the color of his skin. I flew through the first half of the book and had to put it down for a few days and all I could think was "I need to know what happens to them!" I was making up stories in my head about each of them, particularly Nathaniel, who was definitely not so one-dimensional after all.