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The Author - John Corey Whaley
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From a Printz and Morris Award-winning author comes a quirky story of coming-of-age, coming out, friendship, love...and agoraphobia.
Sixteen-year-old Solomon has agoraphobia. He hasn't left his house in 3 years. Ambitious Lisa is desperate to get into a top-tier psychology program. And so when Lisa learns about Solomon, she decides to befriend him, cure him, and then write about it for her college application. To earn Solomon's trust, she introduces him to her boyfriend Clark, and starts to reveal her own secrets. But what started as an experiment leads to a real friendship, with all three growing close. But when the truth comes out, what erupts could destroy them all. Funny and heartwarming, Highly Illogical Behavior is a fascinating exploration of what makes us tick, and how the connections between us may be the most important things of all.
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Book Review
At a time when young adult literature is actively picking away at the stigma of mental illness, Whaley carves off a healthy chunk with style, sensitivity and humor…Whaley's skillful storytelling feels effortless. His characters converse in banter that is so clever as to be a bit surreal, but you don't care, because it's so much fun. Of course, when a character begins her story with a resolution to "fix" a troubled kid you can assume she's just boarded a literary Hindenburg. Yet even with that intrinsic predictability, it's the way the story gets there, and how the characters handle the aftermath, that make the book so electrifying. Whaley portrays these characters with the same sensitivity and honesty he brought to his previous novels…These are people you feel you know, or wish you knew, or are slightly afraid to know, but you're drawn to all the same.
New York Times Book Review