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Sonya Sones has written seven novels in verse: The Opposite of Innocent, Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy; What My Mother Doesn’t Know and its companion, What My Girlfriend Doesn’t Know; One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies; To Be Perfectly Honest; and Saving Red. Sonya’s books have received many honors, but she was especially thrilled when she learned that she was on the American Library Association’s list of the Most Frequently Challenged Authors of the 21st Century. She lives near the beach in California. You can visit her at www.sonyasones.com or write her at sonyasones@gmail.com.
Stop Pretending: What Happened when My Big Sister Went Crazy
by Sonya Sones
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ISBN-13:
9780062044730
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication date: 02/22/2011
- Sold by: HARPERCOLLINS
- Format: eBook
- Pages: 176
- Sales rank: 396,598
- File size: 718 KB
- Age Range: 13 - 17 Years
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It happens just like that, in the blink of an eye. An older sister has a mental breakdown and has to be hospitalized. A younger sister is left behind to cope with a family torn apart by grief and friends who turn their backs on her. But worst of all is the loss of her big sister, her confidante, her best friend, who has gone someplace no one can reach.
In the tradition of The Bell Jar, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, and Lisa, Bright and Dark comes this haunting first book told in poems, and based on the true story of the author's life.
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Stop Pretending is a tour de force debut. It celebrates truth-telling, and has a purity and passion that speaks to the heart.Chicago Tribune
This debut novel shows the capacity of poetry to record the personal and translate it into the universal.The Horn Book
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The poems have a cumulative emotional power.barnesandnoble.com
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