Ab(solutely) normal : short stories that smash mental health stereotypes
2023
Book
Channelling their own experiences, sixteen exceptional authors subvert mental health stereotypes in a powerful and uplifting collection of fiction. A teen activist wrestles with protest-related anxiety and PTSD. A socially anxious vampire learns he has to save his town by (gulp) working with people. As part of her teshuvah, a girl writes letters to the ex-boyfriend she still loves, revealing that her struggle with angry outbursts is related to PMDD. A boy sheds uncontrollable tears but finds that in doing so he's helping to enable another's healing. In this inspiring, unflinching, and hope-filled mixed-genre collection, sixteen diverse and notable authors draw on their own lived experiences with mental health conditions to create stunning works of fiction that will uplift and empower you, break your heart and stitch it back together stronger than before. Through powerful prose, verse, and graphics, the characters in this anthology defy stereotypes as they remind readers that living with a mental health condition doesn't mean that you're defined by it.
Main title:
Ab(solutely) normal : short stories that smash mental health stereotypes / edited by Nora Shalaway Carpenter and Rocky Callen.
Author:
Carpenter, Nora Shalaway, editorCallen, Rocky, editor
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2023.©2023
Collation:
xi, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781536224146 (hardback)
Dewey class:
813.01083561
Language:
English
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BRN:
470608