It’s Kind of a Funny Story - Ned Vizzini

Category: Contemporary, General Fiction
Language: EnglishKeywords: Fiction Literary Contemporary Novel

Written by Ned Vizzini
Read by Robert Fass
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release Date:09-03-12

Ambitious New York City teenager Craig Gilner is determined to succeed at life-which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job. But once Craig aces his way into Manhattan’s Executive Pre-Professional High School, the pressure becomes unbearable. He stops eating and sleeping until, one night, he nearly kills himself.

Craig’s suicidal episode gets him checked into a mental hospital, where his new neighbors include a transsexual sex addict, a girl who has scarred her own face with scissors, and the self-elected President Armelio. There, Craig is finally able to confront the sources of his anxiety. Ned Vizzini, who himself spent time in a psychiatric hospital, has created a remarkably moving tale about the sometimes unexpected road to happiness.

The author of “Be More Chill” takes a poignant look at teenage depression in this remarkably moving and authentic picture of the physicality, despair, and even hilarity of the illness.