The
Edge of Brilliance
by Susan Traugh
Genre: YA Contemporary Realistic Fiction
Release Date: July 19th 2016
Finch Books
Summary from Goodreads:Volatile and unstable, Amy stands at the precipice. Will she fall into the chaos and despair of insanity or ascend into brilliance and redemption?
Amy Miles is fifteen and crazy. Or, at least that’s her greatest fear. Her severe bipolar disorder, with its roller coaster manic and depressive episodes, is ruining her life. Yet in Amy’s mind it is accepting the pills and therapy—not the disease—that will brand her as ’crazy’.
When Amy lands in a residential psychiatric program, she befriends take-charge Mallory and the two create family and try to salvage the shards of their broken minds. There, Amy discovers that her illicit drug use has robbed her of her ability to dance and she is forced to weigh how hard she is willing to work to reclaim her lost talent and potential. But, despite a promising beginning, when Amy falls back into denial, the tragic consequences cannot be undone.
Amy is left to decide whether to give up altogether or accept her diagnosis and the tools she needs to battle her disease, to learn to dance again and forge a new and improved version of herself. Will she step up to the edge of her brilliance and shine?Reader Advisory: This book contains strong language and also includes scenes involving drug use, rape, violence. This book also includes a frank exploration of mental illness and loss of autonomy.
by Susan Traugh
Genre: YA Contemporary Realistic Fiction
Release Date: July 19th 2016
Finch Books
Summary from Goodreads:Volatile and unstable, Amy stands at the precipice. Will she fall into the chaos and despair of insanity or ascend into brilliance and redemption?
Amy Miles is fifteen and crazy. Or, at least that’s her greatest fear. Her severe bipolar disorder, with its roller coaster manic and depressive episodes, is ruining her life. Yet in Amy’s mind it is accepting the pills and therapy—not the disease—that will brand her as ’crazy’.
When Amy lands in a residential psychiatric program, she befriends take-charge Mallory and the two create family and try to salvage the shards of their broken minds. There, Amy discovers that her illicit drug use has robbed her of her ability to dance and she is forced to weigh how hard she is willing to work to reclaim her lost talent and potential. But, despite a promising beginning, when Amy falls back into denial, the tragic consequences cannot be undone.
Amy is left to decide whether to give up altogether or accept her diagnosis and the tools she needs to battle her disease, to learn to dance again and forge a new and improved version of herself. Will she step up to the edge of her brilliance and shine?Reader Advisory: This book contains strong language and also includes scenes involving drug use, rape, violence. This book also includes a frank exploration of mental illness and loss of autonomy.
Buy Links: Amazon
| Finch
Books
About
the Author
Award-winning
author, Susan Traugh, has been writing for over thirty years.
Her Daily
Living Skills workbooks
are used in classrooms all over the world and her stories have
appeared in periodicals nationwide along with several stories
in Chicken
Soup for the Soul. With
husband, Steven, Susan won Learning Magazine's Teachers Choice Award
for Mother
Goose Brain Boost.
Now,
Susan is venturing into the world of young adult fiction. Her latest
novel, The
Edge of Brilliance is
an exploration into the heroes found within struggling young people.
The manuscript was a finalist in the San Diego Book Awards. Today,
Susan lives in San Diego, CA with her husband and daughters, a cat,
dog, fish and near her grown son who doesn't visit enough.
Author
Links:
a Rafflecopter giveaway
Congrats on the tour and thanks for the chance to win :)
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for the opportunity to win
ReplyDeleteVery unique cover! Sounds like a great read!
ReplyDeleteThanks for telling me about this book.
ReplyDeleteI love the use of light and color on the cover!
ReplyDeleteLove the pretty and sparkly book cover! Sounds like such an interesting read! Looking forward to checking out this book!
ReplyDeletei love the cover!!
ReplyDeletefreebiel0ve@yahoo.com
Sounds like she is taking on some really hard issues. Good to be discussing them for people to read.
ReplyDeleteSherry Compton
savewish@yahoo.com
i really like the cover. cant wait to read it
ReplyDeleteI would love to read your book.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on the tour! I am going to read the book and really love the cover...
ReplyDeleteLooks like such a good book!
ReplyDelete