The Burn Journals
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Brent Runyon
Fans of Thirteen Reasons Why, Running with Scissors, and Girl, Interrupted will be entranced by this remarkable true story of teenage despair and recovery.“[The Burn Journals] describes a particular kind of youthful male desolation better than it has ever been described before, by anyone.” —Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday DemonIn 1991, fourteen-year-old Brent Runyon came home from school, doused his bathrobe in gasoline, put it on, and lit a match.He suffered third-degree burns over 85% of his body and spent the next year recovering in hospitals and rehab facilities. During that year of physical recovery, Runyon began to question what he’d done, undertaking the complicated journey from near-death back to high school, and from suicide back to the emotional mainstream of life.
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Author
Brent Runyon
Pages
336
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Date
2005-10-11
ISBN
1400096421 9781400096428
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"Had to read it for school and really didn’t want to. 3 stars because my school didn’t care how much it bothered me. "
Charlie
"I had to read this book for school and it was so so so insufferable. The author obviously had problems, one of them being his perverted ways—when I tell you the was not one moment where I could feel sympathy for him bc he was so weird that any sympathy gathered was immediately dismissed. I think he talked about his dick more than his suicide attempt."
Trash Lover
"A truely unique storyline. I actually haven't read a lot of books from a boys POV."
Deborah Abon-Germany
"#suicide "
Faith
"No problem! It's a really interesting read "
chazie fimek
"This book honestly changed my life. I struggle with suicidal ideation and it helped me to see my life a bit differently. It's a very heavy book so take caution but it is also insanely inspiring!"
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