Gemma Donoghue
Good Enough
Paperback
(Independently published March 3, 2020)
Fans of The Fault in Our Stars, Eleanor and Park and Ellen Hopkins will love Good Enough, a fast, raw hypnotic new young adult novel.
Ten facts about myself.
1. My name is Simon Baker.
2. I'm seventeen years old.
3. I have two sisters. Jessica, who's fourteen and Bailey who's twelve.
4. My parents aren't divorced, they're still together.
5. We live in a nice two-story house in a nice neighborhood.
6. My parents don't do drugs, they don't even drink that often, and neither do I.
7. My parents have never hit us, they've never kept us locked up in the basement or kicked us out of the house.
8. No one has ever touched me in the wrong place.
9. I've been to parties and I've been in a few fights but never over anything serious.
10. I didn't try to kill myself.
Except that Simon wakes up to find that his parents have had him committed to Palmdale Psychiatric Hospital after a failed suicide attempt. Simon wasn't normal and he knew it. He was struggling after losing his best -and only- friend, with being an outcast at school. He tries his best to pretend that everything is okay, but there is still a part of him that he would always keep locked away from everyone else.
Life in the center is regimented and intrusive. Nurses and attendants watch Simon while he sleeps, while he eats and accompany him to the bathroom, and challenge him to talk about what he's worked so hard to avoid. Good Enough will keep you hooked from the first page. Simon has a strong but complicated family dynamic. His closeness with his sisters as well as his distance from his mother influences many of his thoughts. Simon also forms a strong, slow-burning, emotional, vulnerable friendship and later relationship with Oliver, who helps Simons alongside him on their path to recovery.
Donoghue doesn't hold back in her portrayal of mental illness and laying out the triggering incidents that lead to Simon's suicide attempt. Donoghue dives into the complexity of coming out, relationships, and the emotional residue of guilt, fear, and betrayal. Highlighting the devastating physical and mental effects they had on Simon, his friends, and family.
Donoghue reveals Simon's past friendships, his toxic relationships, and the trauma that he has experienced to show the factors that compounded, one after another that led to his suicide attempt and mental state.
Good Enough is a sharp, heartbreaking, emotional journey. From the lows of grief and suicide to the highs of first love to the lows of loss and despair, Simon's story is a compelling read.
Gemma Donoghue is the author of the best selling young adult book Delicate.
Ten facts about myself.
1. My name is Simon Baker.
2. I'm seventeen years old.
3. I have two sisters. Jessica, who's fourteen and Bailey who's twelve.
4. My parents aren't divorced, they're still together.
5. We live in a nice two-story house in a nice neighborhood.
6. My parents don't do drugs, they don't even drink that often, and neither do I.
7. My parents have never hit us, they've never kept us locked up in the basement or kicked us out of the house.
8. No one has ever touched me in the wrong place.
9. I've been to parties and I've been in a few fights but never over anything serious.
10. I didn't try to kill myself.
Except that Simon wakes up to find that his parents have had him committed to Palmdale Psychiatric Hospital after a failed suicide attempt. Simon wasn't normal and he knew it. He was struggling after losing his best -and only- friend, with being an outcast at school. He tries his best to pretend that everything is okay, but there is still a part of him that he would always keep locked away from everyone else.
Life in the center is regimented and intrusive. Nurses and attendants watch Simon while he sleeps, while he eats and accompany him to the bathroom, and challenge him to talk about what he's worked so hard to avoid. Good Enough will keep you hooked from the first page. Simon has a strong but complicated family dynamic. His closeness with his sisters as well as his distance from his mother influences many of his thoughts. Simon also forms a strong, slow-burning, emotional, vulnerable friendship and later relationship with Oliver, who helps Simons alongside him on their path to recovery.
Donoghue doesn't hold back in her portrayal of mental illness and laying out the triggering incidents that lead to Simon's suicide attempt. Donoghue dives into the complexity of coming out, relationships, and the emotional residue of guilt, fear, and betrayal. Highlighting the devastating physical and mental effects they had on Simon, his friends, and family.
Donoghue reveals Simon's past friendships, his toxic relationships, and the trauma that he has experienced to show the factors that compounded, one after another that led to his suicide attempt and mental state.
Good Enough is a sharp, heartbreaking, emotional journey. From the lows of grief and suicide to the highs of first love to the lows of loss and despair, Simon's story is a compelling read.
Gemma Donoghue is the author of the best selling young adult book Delicate.
- ISBN
- / 9798621132132
- Pages
- 271
- Weight
- 12.8 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.0 x 0.7 in.
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