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Written by Holly Schindler
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Language: English
Playing Hurt
Star basketball player Chelsea \"Nitro\" Keyes had the promise of a full ride to college鈥攁nd everyone\'s admiration in her hometown. But everything changed senior year, when she took a horrible fall during a game. Now a metal plate holds her together and she feels like a stranger in her own family.
As a graduation present, Chelsea\'s dad springs for a three-week summer \"boot camp\" program at a northern Minnesota lake resort. There, she\'s immediately drawn to her trainer, Clint, a nineteen-year-old ex-hockey player who\'s haunted by his own traumatic past. As they grow close, Chelsea is torn between her feelings for Clint and her loyalty to her devoted boyfriend back home. Will an unexpected romance just end up causing Chelsea and Clint more pain鈥攐r finally heal their heartbreak?
A Blue So Dark
As her beautiful mother, Grace, an artist, sinks into schizophrenia and refuses medication, 15-year-old Aura feels terrified and isolated. Aura also worries that she may have inherited her mother鈥檚 genetic disposition for the disease, and because she associates it with creativity, she stops exploring her own painting and writing. Soon, both the caretaking and the secrecy her mother鈥檚 illness engenders become impossible for Aura to sustain, and as she increasingly misses days of school, her mother鈥檚 erratic behavior spills over into public scenes. Debut novelist Schindler paints a graphic picture of mental illness and the toll it takes on its victims and their families. Schindler鈥檚 astute, powerful descriptions of the creative process and its ability to mirror the anguish and terror of schizophrenia, as well as its potential to alleviate pain and suffering, elevate this story beyond problem-novel stereotypes or a clinical recounting of symptoms. Grace鈥檚 relentless descent into madness is breathtakingly, gut-wrenchingly authentic, and while Schindler does not sugarcoat the grim possibilities for either Aura or her mother, she leaves readers with some hope for the characters鈥?futures. A haunting, realistic view of the melding of art, creativity, and mental illness and their collective impact on a young person鈥檚 life.
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