Stop Pretending
Author(s): Sonya Sones
It happened to Sonya Sones. 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.
Product Information
Over 200,000 people are admitted to psychiatric hospitals every year and over 6 million seek help for mental problems at some time STOP PRETENDING enthusiastically received by mental health organizations such as SANE and MIND, and by specialists working with troubled teenagers A crossover into the adult market with the same pull as A CHILD CALLED IT Highly successful author visit was followed by features in the national press and broadcast interviews 'one of the most piercing and poignant accounts of the impact of an illness like manic depression... Her wry, blunt, unadorned imagery conveys a love and understanding which must inspire anyone faced with mental illness' Marjorie Wallace, SANE 'A tour de force ... Sones never wavers ... in the authenticity of her voice' (BOSTON GLOBE)
Sonya Sones is a filmmaker and movie editor in California.
General Fields
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- : Orion Publishing Co
- : Orion Children's Books (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- : 0.16
- : 21 March 2002
- : 197mm X 128mm X 11mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Sonya Sones
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : 811.54
- : 160
