Caden’s therapist had his oddities, but they were a bit understated and didn’t seem weird for the sake of weird, if that makes sense. I think this book struck a good balance between making the therapist a presence in the story without his character overtaking or distracting. One criticism I hear about books dealing with mental health issues is that often the therapist is too goofy or has all the answers or just feels absolutely unreal. We don’t know how things will go, but we are not without hope. We end the story with the feeling that we are still very much at the beginning of Caden’s journey. While there’ no quick-fix for Caden in this story, what Shusterman does provide is a profound sense of hope. I can only imagine that the friends and family of anyone suffering from schizophrenia feel that pull, which just added to the story’s brilliance. It’s brilliantly done.Īs a reader, I kept so hoping there would be this magical moment in which Caden’s meds suddenly took effect and he suddenly emerged from the fog happy and whole. The scenes in which Caden interacts with the crew of the pirate ship morph into something entirely different, allowing readers to become engrossed in Caden’s departure from reality while still following a somewhat linear story. Shusterman doesn’t disappoint in this complex, heartbreaking story of a boy with mental health issues. But in the next moment, he may be powerless to doubt them. Sometimes even Caden knows the impossibility of things he believes. In the other, he is a passenger on a pirate ship en route to Challenger Deep, the lowest point of the Marianas Trench.Īs his hold on reality slips, his friends and family begin to notice that something is wrong, but they are powerless to help him. In one, he is an ordinary teen who works on illustrations for a video game he and his friends develop. HarperCollins Amazon | Barnes & Noble | GoodreadsĬaden Bosch is caught between two worlds.
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