Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy
Author: Sonya Sones
Desc: Continuously in print for nearly two decades this groundbreaking and profoundly moving story told in verse from award-winning author Sonya Sones has been repackaged with a striking new cover and bonus content. When her beloved older sister is hospitalized after a sudden mental breakdown Cookie is left behind to cope with a family torn apart by grief friends who shun her and her fear that she too might one day lose her mind. Based on award-winning author Sonya Sones’s own true story this novel explores the chilling landscape of mental illness revealing glimmers of beauty and of hope along the way. Told in a succession of short and powerful poems it takes us deep into the cyclone of the narrator’s emotions: despair anger guilt resentment and ultimately acceptance.