Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Voted by both Bustle and Nylon as a most anticipated novel of 2019, this portrait of a young teenager's fight toward understanding and recovering from mental illness is
shockingly dark, funny, and heartfelt. A highly anticipated debut--from a writer hailed as "a combination of Denis Johnson and Joan Didion" (Dazed)--brilliantly captures the intimate triumph of a girl's struggle to become the woman she knows she can be.
Ambitious, talented fourteen-year-old honors student Juliet is poised for success at her Southern California high school. However, she soon finds herself on an increasingly frightening spiral of drug use, self-harm, and mental illness that lands her in a remote therapeutic boarding school, where she must ultimately find the inner strength to survive.
Synopsis
"Dazzling..."--The New York Times
Voted by both Bustle and Nylon as a most anticipated novel of 2019, this portrait of a young teenager's fight toward understanding and recovering from mental illness is shockingly honest
, funny, and heartfelt.
A highly anticipated debut--from a writer hailed as "a combination of Denis Johnson and Joan Didion" (
Dazed)--brilliantly captures the intimate triumph of a girl's struggle to become the woman she knows she can be.
Ambitious, talented fourteen-year-old honors student Juliet is poised for success at her Southern California high school. However, she soon finds herself on an increasingly frightening spiral of drug use, self-harm, and mental illness that lands her in a remote therapeutic boarding school, where she must ultimately find the inner strength to survive.
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For fans of Ottessa Moshfegh, Juliet the Maniac is a worthy new entry in that pantheon of deconstruction... Dazzling.--NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW This portrait of a young teenager's fight toward understanding and recovering from mental illness is shockingly honest, funny, and heartfelt.
Ambitious, talented fourteen-year-old honors student Juliet is poised for success at her Southern California high school. However, she soon finds herself in an increasingly frightening spiral of drug use, self-harm, and mental illness that lands her in a remote therapeutic boarding school, where she must ultimately find the inner strength to survive.
A highly anticipated debut--from a writer hailed as a combination of Denis Johnson and Joan Didion (Dazed)--that brilliantly captures the intimate triumph of a girl's struggle to become the woman she knows she can be.