An ALA-YALSA Best Book for Young Adults * A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year * Kansas National Education Association Reading Circle Catalog Selection Book of the Year * Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee * A CBC's 2 Teen Choice Book Awards Nominee "Creates
a psychologically tense story with sympathetic characters while dispelling myths about a much-feared condition." –
Publishers Weekly, starred review
"
A welcome novel that doesn't treat schizophrenia as an unavoidable sentence of doom and that allots friendship and romance equal weight with mental illness.
" –Kirkus Reviews "
Walton does a brilliant job of giving a voice to a population that is often silenced."
–Booklist "Despite heavy subject matter, Adam is
hilarious and infinitely lovable, and the ending is
hopeful and realistic rather than happily-ever-after and contrived." –The Hub, YALSA
"
Imaginative writing and beautiful storytelling make this book an upbeat tale, but the message [of acceptance] is still driven home." –
VOYA "
A brutal, beautiful book that sits right beside
The Perks of Being a Wallflower and
I'll Give You the Sun." –Jennifer Longo, author of
Up to This Pointe "This book reminds me of
A Monster Calls. I saved the final twenty pages for the next day because
I didn't want Adam's story to end." –Peter Brown Hoffmeister, author of
This Is the Part Where You Laugh
