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Fans of Thirteen Reasons Why, Running with Scissors, and Girl, Interrupted will be entranced by this remarkable true story of teenage despair and recovery.

" The Burn Journals] describes a particular kind of youthful male desolation better than it has ever been described before, by anyone." --Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon

In 1991, fourteen-year-old Brent Runyon came home from school, doused his bathrobe in gasoline, put it on, and lit a match. He suffered third-degree burns over 85% of his body and spent the next year recovering in hospitals and rehab facilities. During that year of physical recovery, Runyon began to question what he'd done, undertaking the complicated journey from near-death back to high school, and from suicide back to the emotional mainstream of life.

  • ISBN-13: 9781400096428
  • ISBN-10: 1400096421
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • Publish Date: October 2005
  • Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.72 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.55 pounds
  • Page Count: 336
  • Reading Level: Ages 14-17

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