Stop Pretending by Sonya Sones

Stop Pretending by Sonya Sones

Continuously in print for nearly two decades, this groundbreaking and profoundly moving story told in verse, from award-winning author Sonya Sones, has been repackaged with a striking new cover and bonus content.

When her beloved older sister is hospitalized after a sudden mental breakdown, Cookie is left behind to cope with a family torn apart by grief, friends who shun her, and her fear that she, too, might one day lose her mind.

Based on award-winning author Sonya Sones's own true story, this novel explores the chilling landscape of mental illness, revealing glimmers of beauty and of hope along the way. Told in a succession of short and powerful poems, it takes us deep into the cyclone of the narrator's emotions: despair, anger, guilt, resentment, and ultimately, acceptance.

Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Mad, One of Those Hideous Novels Where the Mother Dies, What My Mother Doesn't Know, and its companion, What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know are four novels-in-verse by Sonya Sones. A Christopher Prize, the Myra Cohn Livingston Poetry Award, and the Claudia Lewis Award for Poetry have all been given to her publications. The coolest award she ever received was when What My Mother Doesn't Know reached the ALA's Top Ten Most Challenged Books list three times. In California, she lives near the shore. SonyaSones.com is where you can find her.