A TRAGIC KIND OF WONDERFUL

In the vein of It's Kind of a Funny Story and All the Bright Places comes a
captivating, immersive exploration of life with mental illness.

For sixteen-year-old Mel Hannigan, bipolar disorder makes life
unpredictable. Her latest struggle is balancing her growing feelings in a new
relationship with her instinct to conceal her diagnosis by keeping everyone at
arm's length. But when a former friend confronts Mel with the truth about the
way their relationship ended, deeply buried secrets threaten to come out and
upend her shaky equilibrium.
As the walls of Mel's compartmentalized world crumble, she fears the worst
—that no one will accept her if they discover what she's been hiding. But
would her friends really abandon her if they learned the truth? More
importantly, can Mel bring herself to risk everything to find out?
I n A Tragic Kind of Wonderful, Eric Lindstrom, author of the critically
acclaimed Not If I See You First, examines the fear that keeps us from
exposing our true selves, and the courage it takes to be loved for who we
really are.