There, she is determined to find her mother, the bird. Leigh, who is half Asian and half white, travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time. Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: When her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird. The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Or uncovering the light within herself that she didn’t know existed.ģ. Or walking into the office of the volunteer hotline, and discovering a community as simultaneously strong and broken as she is. Like meeting the dazzling Etta, a city college student who is a world unto herself. Her bipolar II disorder feels like it swallows her completely.īut other days-they feel like revelations. Her best friend cracks all the wrong jokes.
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Her parents don’t know how to speak to her. Some days the pain feels as fresh as that day: the day she attempted suicide. But now that Journey has a future, she apparently also has to figure out what that future’s supposed to look like. Life’s tough when you didn’t expect to be living it. She devours her own pain, each day retreating farther and farther inside herself until finally, one day, everything changes. Shadi tries to navigate her crumbling world by soldiering through, saying nothing.
And then, of course, there’s the small matter of her heart. Her brother is dead, her father is dying, her mother is falling apart, and her best friend has mysteriously dropped out of her life. Shadi is named for joy, but she’s haunted by sorrow. She’s too busy drowning in her own troubles to find the time to deal with bigots. Shadi, who wears hijab, keeps her head down. Tensions are high, hate crimes are on the rise, FBI agents are infiltrating local mosques, and the Muslim community is harassed and targeted more than ever. It’s 2003, several months since the US officially declared war on Iraq, and the American political world has evolved. An Emotion of Great Delight by Tahereh Mafi So, in no particular order, here are some stunning YA books that handle mental health.ġ. Being “on” all the time can burn you out faster than anything.īecause sometimes you need a reminder that you’re not alone, we reached out to the members of our Facebook Group and asked for their favorite books that portray mental illness and discussions of mental health well. Like the concept behind Inside Out, we need all the emotions to exist, not just the so-called happy and cheerful ones. But we are stronger together, and one of the most empowering things about speaking up is the knowledge that you are not alone, no matter how you may feel otherwise. Because, unfortunately, there is still a stigma surrounding mental health.įor some of us, talking about mental health and mental illness is hard. In case you weren’t aware, May is Mental Health Awareness Month and, well, can we all just give a round of applause for that? Even the existence of such a month is important.
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