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Also by Brent Runyon:

Surface Tension, March 2009
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The Burn Journals, October 2005
Paperback

THE BURN JOURNALS
By: Brent Runyon

Vintage
October 2005
On Sale: October 11, 2005
336 pages
ISBN: 1400096421
EAN: 9781400096428
Paperback
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Non-Fiction Memoir

I don’t want to get out of bed.
I’m so stupid.
I did so many things wrong.
I don’t know what to do.
I’m going to be in so much trouble.
What am I going to do?
I’m completely screwed.

In 1991, fourteen-year-old Brent Runyon came home from school, doused his bathrobe in gasoline, put it on, and lit a match.

He suffered third-degree burns over 85% of his body and spent the next year recovering in hospitals and rehab facilities. During that year of physical recovery, Runyon began to question what he’d done, undertaking the complicated journey from near-death back to high school, and from suicide back to the emotional mainstream of life.

In the tradition of Running with Scissors and Girl, Interrupted, The Burn Journals is a truly remarkable book about teenage despair and recovery.

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This American Life - March 21, 2009