It's Kind of a Funny Story
I can’t eat and I can’t sleep. I’m not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?
Author: Ned Vizzini
Author: Ned Vizzini
Publisher: Topeka Bindery
Date: 2006
Craig Gilner thought that getting into Executive Pre-Professional High School was difficult, but it turns out staying in is a whole lot harder. The pressure he puts on himself to succeed and fear of failure spiral into extreme anxiety and clinical depression, until he decides to commit suicide. After calling a suicide helpline he admits himself into a psychiatric hospital instead, where he has to spend five days in the Adult Psychiatric Unit with people who will change his life. Honest and hopeful with a number of believable, relatable characters, It’s Kind of a Funny Story is really quite a funny story.
Date: 2006
Craig Gilner thought that getting into Executive Pre-Professional High School was difficult, but it turns out staying in is a whole lot harder. The pressure he puts on himself to succeed and fear of failure spiral into extreme anxiety and clinical depression, until he decides to commit suicide. After calling a suicide helpline he admits himself into a psychiatric hospital instead, where he has to spend five days in the Adult Psychiatric Unit with people who will change his life. Honest and hopeful with a number of believable, relatable characters, It’s Kind of a Funny Story is really quite a funny story.
Recommended for: 14-20 years
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It’s Kind of a Funny Story has also been made into a film starring Keir Gilchrist, Emma Roberts and Zach Galifianakis.
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