The Possibility of Now by Kim Culbertson

 

This book is about a girl named Mara who gets publicly shamed after a meltdown in calculus class. After this, she chooses to travel to Tahoe, California, to meet her biological father, Trick McHale, a ski bum. While finding her place in Tahoe, she meets many friends and enemies and learns valuable life lessons. She learns to de-stress, and, in the end, is left loving Tahoe.