Juliet the Maniac, Juliet Escoria
Juliet the Maniac, Juliet Escoria
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Juliet the Maniac
A Novel

Author: Juliet Escoria

Narrator: Jennifer Jill Araya

Unabridged: 8 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/18/2019

Categories: Fiction, Coming Of Age


Synopsis

A shockingly dark, funny, and heartbreaking portrait of a young teenager's clash with mental illness and her battle toward understanding and recovery

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, and determination, to survive.

This highly anticipated debut—from the 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.

About Juliet Escoria

Juliet Escoria is the author of the poetry collection Witch Hunt and the story collection Black Cloud, which were both listed in various best of the year roundups. Her writing can be found in places like Lenny, Catapult, Vice, Prelude, Dazed, and Hobart and has already been translated into many languages. She lives in West Virginia with her husband, the writer Scott McClanahan.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Felicia

___________________________________ "It is hard to tease out the beginning. When I was living it, my disintegration seemed sudden, like I had once been whole but then my reality swiftly slipped apart into sand. Not even sand, but slime, something desperate and oozing and sick. But looking back - I wa......more

Goodreads review by Bud

A really great novel. It’s about a teenage girl who loses her mind and goes looking for it in an institution. Reading this reminded me how great art can be when it’s wounded and weird and funny and strange where the heart is. Takes place in the 90s, back blurb compares it to the Bell Jar and Girl, I......more

Goodreads review by Scott

Uh huh. Get ready.......more