The Burn Journals
by By Runyon, Brent
Category: Psychology , Suicide

Fans of Thirteen Reasons Why, Running with Scissors and  Girl, Interrupted will be entranced by this remarkable true story of teenage despair and recoveryIn 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.