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Of Laughter & Heartbreak
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781961841581
Publisher: Shady Oak Press
Published: Sep 22 2025
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
This is the summer of locked doors, fragile rituals, and the ghosts that keep count.
I'm Stevie Matthews-almost sixteen, the kind of girl people whisper about. Bat-shit crazy, they say. Maybe they're right. This summer, the order cracks. Obsessive thoughts tighten like barbed wire, rituals multiply, and the only way forward is a hospital stay I never asked for.
Behind those doors, I meet strangers who feel both broken and familiar, each carrying their own secret galaxies of fear and hope. Together, we make a kind of map-messy, jagged, stitched with laughter, unraveling with heartbreak.
This is the story of how I learn that friendship can be born from accident, that healing isn't neat or pretty, and that sometimes the bravest thing is to stay.
This book is a tender, unflinching portrait of adolescence, OCD, and the fragile alchemy of survival-equal parts bruised and luminous, like a diary written in ink and ghost light.
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