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A List of Things That Didn't Kill Me by Jason Schmidt

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A List of Things That Didn't Kill Me

A Memoir

Jason Schmidt

Farrar Straus & Giroux · January 6, 2015

Reading lane: Young Adult Fiction / Social Themes / Suicide

A List of Things That Didn't Kill Me: A Memoir

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Who It's For

  • Good for readers who enjoy Young Adult Fiction / Social Themes / Suicide
  • Good for readers interested in teens
  • Good for fans of Memoir

Book Details

  • Authors: Jason Schmidt
  • Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
  • Published: January 6, 2015
  • Themes: Teens, Crime, Memoir.
  • Reading lane: Social Themes and Social Topics.
  • Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux.

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  • Young Adult Fiction / Social Themes / Suicide

    80%
  • Young Adult Fiction / Social Themes / Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse

    80%
  • Young Adult Nonfiction / Social Topics / Physical & Emotional Abuse

    80%

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About This Book

Jason 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...

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Jason 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?

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