It's Kind of a Funny Story
Ned Vizzini • 2006
Devastation Rating
mental health hospitalization young adult depression
Our Take
Craig checks himself into a psychiatric ward and discovers the floor for teens has been closed — so he ends up with adults. Vizzini wrote from inside his own hospitalization, and you feel it. The humor is survival mechanism, not decoration. Vizzini died by suicide in 2013. The book preceded the worst by seven years.
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