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Loading... Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazyby Sonya Sones
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. i liked this book beacuse its cool and it talks about when her sisters gets crazy and when she first fell in love. it a good book because it talks whem she was lonley when she knew what was happening to her sister. her sister went to a hostilal a mental hospital . (  ) Monicamarcial | Sep 28, 2009 |  In Sonya Sones new book, the main character tells the story of what it was like when her older sister went crazy one Christmas Eve. Having shown no earlier signs of mental illness, imagine the fright it caused her family, particularly the younger sister. The story does a great job of telling what it would be like if you were the sister of a girl who just simply went crazy one day. Her sister is diagnosed as manic depressive and the family tries to cope with her strange behavior after eventually hospitalizing her. The narrator struggles when friends cut her off after finding out, worrying that this could be genetic and just simply trying to come to terms with what has happened and how it has changed her life. (  ) kthielen | Sep 14, 2009 | I have never read about mental illness written in such a beautiful way. Sonya Sones' falling rhythm poems tell the story of when her eldest sister (by seven years) had a nervous breakdown and was institutionalized. These short and powerful, easy-to-read and even easier to understand poems explicitly detail the author's feelings towards her situation, her sister, her mother, her father, her friends, herself. Devoured in a quick sitting, the impact of these poems are lasting. A beautiful way to deal with mental illness. ( ) LilyMoayeri | Jul 8, 2009 | In short verse chapters, the 12-year-old narrator recounts her sister's descent into manic depression, including her fear of her sister and fear that it might be "catching," fear of losing her friends and guilt that she was the cause. Based upon journals that the author, Sonya Sones, wrote when her older sister suffered a nervous breakdown. (  ) cliddie | Jun 11, 2009 | I did not like this book at all! Sorry. AMaykut | May 28, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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