![]() ![]() That's the welcome, endearing product Julie Halpern offers readers. ![]() With Anna down the hall, landing in the ‘loony bin' just might be a whole lot of fun.” -Chicago Tribune “ is endearing as a caustic damsel in distress. ![]() ![]() As the novel progresses, readers will get a kick out of Anna's snarky sense of humor and her capacity for self-renewal.” -Publishers Weekly “An upbeat story that offers a hype-free, realistic look inside a teen ward. “I completely fell in love with Anna Bloom's voice-it's wry, romantic, and so, so true.” -Gabrielle Zevin, author of Elsewhere Get Well Soon, Julie Halpern's fiction debut, finds humor in the unlikeliest of places, and presents a character whose voice - and heart - will resonate with all of us who have ever felt just a little bit crazy. Here she meets a roommate with a secret (and a plastic baby), a doctor who focuses way too much on her weight, and a cute, shy boy who just might like her.īut wait! Being trapped in a loony bin isn't supposed to be about making friends, losing weight, and having a crush, is it? Anna Bloom is depressed - so depressed that her parents have committed her to a mental hospital with a bunch of other messed-up teens. ![]()
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