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Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy

Sonya Sones

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#6842 of 8,085 books · #674 in Young Adult

Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature (1999).

Her brilliant sequence of poems describes the night her 19-year-old sister suddenly turns into a screaming stranger and is taken away to a psychiatric hospital. She portrays a loving family torn apart by grief; the ordeal of hospital visits; the anxiety of a 13-year-old that her friends will reject her if they find out, or that this could happen to her too; and finally her acceptance that her life has been forever changed. This is a stunning book in the tradition of THE BELL JAR. It is the first by Sonya Sones, whose poems evoke an ordinary teenager's shattered world with powerful intensity. Deeply human and affecting, and very readable, this is an inspirational book that speaks to adults just as much as teenagers.

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Publisher
Orion Children's Books
ISBN-13
9781842550465
Topics
Mental illnessFamily and sibling relationshipsComing of age

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