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My Heart and Other Black Holes is a debut young adult novel by American author Jasmine Warga. HarperCollins published the novel on February 17, 2015. Sixteen-year-old physics nerd Aysel is obsessed with plotting her own death. With a mother who can barely look at her without wincing, classmates who whisper behind her back, and a father whose violent crime rocked her small town, Aysel is ready to turn her potential energy into nothingness.

There is only one problem: she is not sure she has the courage to do it alone. But once she discovers a website with a section called Suicide Partners, Aysel is convinced she has found her solution—Roman, a teenage boy haunted by a family tragedy, is looking for a partner.