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List of Things That Didn't Kill Me : A Memoir by Jason Schmidt (2015, Hardcover)

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Things like that had been happening a lot since Mark had been diagnosed with HIV, three years earlier.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux

ISBN-100374380139

ISBN-139780374380137

eBay Product ID (ePID)201735448

Product Key Features

Book TitleList of Things That Didn't Kill Me : a Memoir

Number of Pages432 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2015

TopicAbuse / General, Dysfunctional Families, Psychopathology / Addiction, Social Topics / Physical & Emotional Abuse (See Also Social Topics / Sexual Abuse), Criminology

GenreFamily & Relationships, Young Adult Nonfiction, Social Science, Psychology

AuthorJason Schmidt

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight16.9 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceYoung Adult Audience

LCCN2014-013170

ReviewsSchmidt's memoir is heartbreaking and touches the soul . . . Schmidt's brilliant prose will fascinate and appall teens and adults who read memoirs., Disturbing, heartbreaking, and inspiring...This unflinchingly honest work is a strong choice for readers who appreciate unfiltered stories., "Schmidt's memoir is heartbreaking and touches the soul . . . Schmidt's brilliant prose will fascinate and appall teens and adults who read memoirs." - VOYA "A man whose emotionally unstable father moved him from home to home throughout the 1970s and '80s before dying of AIDS tells his story . . . Teens and adults who favor memoirs will be fascinated and deeply moved." - Kirkus Reviews "Schmidt's memoir-which spans his childhood to late adolescence and chronicles his abuse and near homelessness at the hands of his drug-addicted gay father-is an emotionally demanding read." Publishers Weekly "This title joins the ranks of harrowing true stories like Dave Pelzer's A Child Called It (1993) and Augusten Burrough's Running with Scissors (2002), compelling accounts of childhood despair that are painful to read and impossible to put down." - Booklist, "A man whose emotionally unstable father moved him from home to home throughout the 1970s and '80s before dying of AIDS tells his story . . . Teens and adults who favor memoirs will be fascinated and deeply moved." - Kirkus Reviews "Schmidt's memoir-which spans his childhood to late adolescence and chronicles his abuse and near homelessness at the hands of his drug-addicted gay father-is an emotionally demanding read." Publishers Weekly "This title joins the ranks of harrowing true stories like Dave Pelzer's A Child Called It (1993) and Augusten Burrough's Running with Scissors (2002), compelling accounts of childhood despair that are painful to read and impossible to put down." - Booklist, "A man whose emotionally unstable father moved him from home to home throughout the 1970s and '80s before dying of AIDS tells his story . . . Teens and adults who favor memoirs will be fascinated and deeply moved." - Kirkus Reviews, "Schmidt's memoir is heartbreaking and touches the soul . . . Schmidt's brilliant prose will fascinate and appall teens and adults who read memoirs." -- VOYA "A man whose emotionally unstable father moved him from home to home throughout the 1970s and '80s before dying of AIDS tells his story . . . Teens and adults who favor memoirs will be fascinated and deeply moved." -- Kirkus Reviews "Schmidt's memoir--which spans his childhood to late adolescence and chronicles his abuse and near homelessness at the hands of his drug-addicted gay father--is an emotionally demanding read." -- Publishers Weekly "This title joins the ranks of harrowing true stories like Dave Pelzer's A Child Called It (1993) and Augusten Burrough's Running with Scissors (2002), compelling accounts of childhood despair that are painful to read and impossible to put down." -- Booklist "Disturbing, heartbreaking, and inspiring...This unflinchingly honest work is a strong choice for readers who appreciate unfiltered stories." -- School Library Journal, This title joins the ranks of harrowing true stories like Dave Pelzer's A Child Called It (1993) and Augusten Burrough's Running with Scissors (2002), compelling accounts of childhood despair that are painful to read and impossible to put down., "A man whose emotionally unstable father moved him from home to home throughout the 1970s and '80s before dying of AIDS tells his story . . . Teens and adults who favor memoirs will be fascinated and deeply moved." - Kirkus Reviews "Schmidt's memoir-which spans his childhood to late adolescence and chronicles his abuse and near homelessness at the hands of his drug-addicted gay father-is an emotionally demanding read." Publishers Weekly, A man whose emotionally unstable father moved him from home to home throughout the 1970s and '80s before dying of AIDS tells his story . . . Teens and adults who favor memoirs will be fascinated and deeply moved., Schmidt's memoir--which spans his childhood to late adolescence and chronicles his abuse and near homelessness at the hands of his drug-addicted gay father--is an emotionally demanding read.

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingA

Grade FromNinth Grade

Dewey Decimal362.19697/920092 B

SynopsisJason Schmidt wasn't surprised when he came home one day during his junior year of high school and found his father, Mark, crawling around in a giant pool of blood. Things like that had been happening a lot since Mark had been diagnosed with HIV, three years earlier. Jason's life with Mark was full of secrets--about drugs, crime, and sex. If the straights--people with normal lives--ever found out any of those secrets, the police would come. Jason's home would be torn apart. So the rule, since Jason had been in preschool, was never to tell the straights anything. A List of Things That Didn't Kill Me is a funny, disturbing memoir full of brutal insights and unexpected wit that explores the question: How do you find your moral center in a world that doesn't seem to have one?

LC Classification NumberHV697.S347 2014