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Fans of More Happy Than Not and The Perks of Being a Wallflower will cheer for Adam in this uplifting and surprisingly funny story of a boy living with schizophrenia.
When you can't trust your mind, trust your heart.
Adam is a pretty regular teen, except he's navigating high school life while living with paranoid schizophrenia. His hallucinations include a cast of characters that range from the good (beautiful Rebecca) to the bad (angry Mob Boss) to the just plain weird (polite naked guy).
An experimental drug promises to help him hide his illness from the world. When Adam meets Maya, a fiercely intelligent girl, he desperately wants to be the normal, great guy that she thinks he is. But as the miracle drug begins to fail, how long can he keep this secret from the girl of his dreams?
"Echoing the premise and structure of Flowers for Algernon, this [is a] frank and inspiring novel." --Publishers Weekly, starred review
Don't miss Just Our Luck, another stunning book by Julia Walton. Coming in 2020!
I cried my mascara off there towards the end. They were happy-sad-mad tears. I loved Adam. His voice was so clear. He made me laugh and he made my heart ache. And I loved that Walton put someone like Maya in his life. When you find people like that, you hold on with both hands. I feel like schizophrenia is like a lot of conditions that are poorly represented in movies and TV - misunderstood, and I am glad Walton shed some light on this illness. There are going to be quite a few characters in this book who disappointed me. I actually wanted to throat punch a few, but there were others who were wonderful and some, who even surprised me.
Overall: An emotional and eye-opening look at schizophrenia, which left made my heart ache, break, and fill with warmth.
