Crazy - Softcover

Nolan, Han

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0547577281 ISBN 13: 9780547577289

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 2012

Synopsis

Powerful fiction from National Book Award-winning author Han Nolan.Fifteen-year-old Jason has fallen on bad times--his mother has died and his father has succumbed to mental illness. As he tries to hold his crazy father and their crumbling home together, Jason relies on a host of imaginary friends for guidance. Both heartbreaking and funny, Crazy provides more of the intense and compelling characters Han Nolan is praised for.

About this title

Review:

* "Nolan leavens this haunting but hopeful story with spot-on humor and a well developed cast of characters, and she shows with moving clarity the emotional costs of mental illness, especially on teens forced to parent their own parents."--Booklist, starred review

* "In this distinct and effective blend of sorrow and humor, Jason, once invisible to his classmates and used to the chaos at home, suffers the effects of change when he's enrolled in a lunch-hour group therapy with other wayward teens and his father is taken away...he slowly learns, with the help of his new friends and foster parents, normalcy and how to care for himself first."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review

About the Author:

HAN NOLAN is the author of the National Book Award winner Dancing on the Edge, the National Book Award finalist Send Me Down a Miracle, Born Blue, and several other acclaimed novels. She and her husband live in the South.
www.hannolan.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0547577281
• ISBN 13: 9780547577289
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 348