Your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell. ~ John Green Turtles all the way down by John green is a YA novel. The story of 16 year old Aza Holmes who struggles with OCD, which often manifests as a fear of the human microbiome. Constantly worried about infection, particularly by C. diff. The novel explores Aza's relationship with her best friend Daisy. One day at school Daisy discovers that Russell Pickett, a billionaire construction magnate and the father of one of Aza's old friends, Davis Pickett, has gone missing in the wake of fraud investigations. Tempted by the reward of $100,000 for information leading to Pickett's arrest, Daisy takes Aza on a search for the missing billionaire. As we know the book is written about kind of mental illness that has affected Author's life since childhood, so while the story is fictional, it is also quite personal.