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Detached

Christina Kilbourne

Publisher: Dundurn

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Summary

2016 VOYA Top Shelf Fiction Selection 
 
Anna has always been so level-headed, so easy-going, so talented and funny. How could anyone have guessed she wanted to die? 
 
Anna is not like other people. She’s always felt like she didn’t belong: not with other kids, not with her family, not in her body. It isn’t until her grandparents are killed in a tragic accident, however, that Anna starts to feel untethered. She begins to wonder what it would be like if she didn’t exist, and the thought of escaping the aimless drifting is the only thing that brings her comfort. 
 
When Anna overdoses on prescription painkillers, doctors realize she has been suffering from depression and start looking for a way to help her out of the desperate black hole she never thought she would escape. It’s then that rock bottom comes into sight and the journey back to normal begins.

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