A List of Things That Didn't Kill Me
A Memoir
Farrar Straus & Giroux · Print & ebook · January 6, 2015
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.
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- Who it’s for
- This memoir pairs unsettling family secrets with unexpected wit and hard questions about right and wrong.
- Genres
- LGBTQ+ Biographies, Substance Abuse & Addiction for Teens, Abuse & Recovery for Teens
- Published
- Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 6, 2015
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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.
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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?
Wit and Hard Truths
This memoir pairs unsettling family secrets with unexpected wit and hard questions about right and wrong.
Come here for
- Dark humor alongside difficult family truths
- A searching question about finding a moral center
Expect
- Candid reflections on life around a father diagnosed with HIV
- Brutal insights, unsettling moments, and flashes of humor
Where it sits
| Substance Abuse & Addiction for Teens | 74% |
|---|---|
| LGBTQ+ Biographies | 62% |
| Abuse & Recovery for Teens | 42% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Abuse & Recovery for Teens
- Authors
- Jason Schmidt
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Published
- January 6, 2015
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Abuse & Recovery for Teens