It´s kind of a funny story Ned Vizzini

“It´s kind of a funny story” is an amazing book that pictures the idea of being depressed in a very deep and real way. It´s about a 16-year-old boy named Craig that struggles with depression and wants to commit suicide. He lives in New York City and he attends to Executive Pre-Professional High School. Craig wants to get into this summer business school because he believes that the summer school would help him get into a good university. One of the reasons why he is depressed is that life has not worked out like has planned to. He planned to get good grades so he can enter to a good school to have a good job so he can have a good life. Also His best friend Aaron is good at everything which really affects Craig because Aaron has it all the grades, the school, and the girl. Nia is Aaron´s girlfriend but Craig has been in love with her for a long time. One Sunday in the early morning he decides to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge but suddenly he starts thinking about his family and starts having second thoughts so he calls the suicide hotline which told him to go to the nearest hospital. In the hospital, he gets admitted into the adult’s psychiatric department 3rd north. In there he meets Bobby, Noelle, Muqtada, George, Smitty, Humbler, Johnny, etc. At first, he didn´t feel like he belonged there because he was just depressed and there they were people with all kinds of problems but then he got passed all of that and started acknowledging the patients by who they are, not their mental illness. At the end, he learned that “life can´t be cured but managed” and that 3 north really helped him realize what he wants.
What I like about this book is the respect that the characters showed towards mental illness and how the author writes about depression saying that you can´t control it. What I don’t like about the book is how slow it is.
I think everybody should read this book because it´s so real and special.