Review Of It's Kind Of A Funny Story By Ned Vizzini

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For the past week, I have been reading this book called “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” by Ned Vizzini. I’m making this book review to state my opinions about the book that I have just read. This book was inspired by the author’s brief hospitalization for depression so this book tackles mental illnesses focusing on depression and anxiety. The book is narrated by Craig Gilner, a 15-year-old who lives with his family in an upper middle-class Brooklyn neighborhood. He attends Executive Pre-Professional High School, which he studied hard for to get accepted into. When school started, he got overwhelmed by the amount of school work he had to do and therefore, becomes so stressed that it affects his mental health and gets an eating disorder.

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