Jason Schmidt wasn't surprised when he came home one day during his junior year of high school and found his father, Mark, crawling around in a giant pool of blood. Things like that had been happening a lot since Mark had been diagnosed with HIV, three years earlier. Jason's life with Mark was full of secrets--about drugs, crime, and sex. If the straights--people with normal lives--ever found out any of those secrets, the police would come. Jason's home would be torn apart. So the rule, since Jason had been in preschool, was never to tell the straights anything. A List of Things That Didn't Kill Me is a funny, disturbing memoir full of brutal insights and unexpected wit that explores the question: How do you find your moral center in a world that doesn't seem to have one?
- ISBN10 0374380139
- ISBN13 9780374380137
- Publish Date 6 January 2015
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 November 2022
- Imprint Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 432
- Language English