How I Made It to Eighteen: A Mostly True Story
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781429948463 (1429948469)
Publish date: June 8th 2010
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
This is a somewhat fictionalized (lightly, the author says) account of the author's stay in a mental hospital after having a breakdown. There's plenty going on in her life: depression, an eating disorder, drugs, isolation from family and friends, and a boyfriend who is both controlling and detached ...
Eh. Unremarkable 'issues' book. I only finished it because the art is pretty cute. There was an alleged plot twist that was...um, duh. There were testemonial interludes from friends of the protagonist that came off like those informational pamphlets about "what to do when" and "symptoms of".If y...