Ab(solutely) normal : short stories that smash mental health stereotypes

Title
Ab(solutely) normal : short stories that smash mental health stereotypes

Personal Author EPSB
Mercedes, Acosta

Summary
Channeling their own experiences, sixteen authors subvert mental health stereotypes in this 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.

Year Published
2023

Physical Description
xi. 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject
Short stories.
 
Mental health.
 
Depression, Mental -- Fiction.
 
Self-esteem -- Fiction.
 
Mental illness -- Fiction.

Genre
Short stories.

Added Author
Carpenter, Nora Shalaway,
 
Callen, Rocky,
 
Stork, Francisco,
 
Quintero, Isabel,
 
Kastin, Jonathan,
 
Drury, Anna,
 
Grimes, Nikki,
 
Howlett, Val,
 
Dow, Alechia,
 
Downes, Patrick,
 
Patel, Sonia,
 
Pixley, Marcella,
 
Stewart, Ebony,
 
Bird, James,
 
Bao, Karen,

Summary
Channeling their own experiences, sixteen authors subvert mental health stereotypes in this 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.

ISBN
9781536224146
 
9781536232950

Publisher
Somerville : Candlewick Press, 2023.
 
©2023


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D.S. MacKenzieF CARBook30522000381639Realistic Fiction