Challenger Deep, (Hardcover)

from Jessie_Bear

Caden Bosch struggles as his life disintegrates into compulsive walking for hours, seeing signs everywhere, believing something terrible is about to happen to those he loves, feeling outside of himself, and journeying on a nautical quest to the deepest part of the earth. Caden Bosch suffers from ...

from thathikermeg

Rating: 4.5/5 I read this book for a project a long while back, and revisiting it I can see what I loved about it back then. The contrast and similarities between Caden's reality and the world in his head took me some time to grasp when I was younger, but reviewing it with the full picture makes ...

from Dairyqueen84

Brilliantly done. I love the collaboration with his son for this book. Shusterman depicted the mind of mental illness in a way that really brought it to life that the reader can experience it.

from bonniemarjorie

'Sometimes the darkness beyond is not glorious at all, it truly is an absolute absence of light. A clawing, needy tar that pulls you down. You drown but you don't. It turns you to lead so you sink faster in its viscous embrace. It robs you of hope and even the memory of hope. It makes you think y...

from bell7

Caden narrates this story about his descent into mental illness, and what happens when his parents realize something is very wrong. He has moments of lucidity and times where his story has a dreamlike quality and you're not quite sure reading where reality falls. The author has personally known p...