The 39 Deaths of Adam Strand
by Gregory Galloway
So he kills himself -- 39 times.
REVIEWS...
"An honest, aching character study that captures small-town life and small-town despair, and takes both to an intriguing extreme [...] It thoughtfully explores the impulses that drive Adam, and what it feels like to be unwillingly locked into a body he's tired of, and a life he sometimes hates but can't escape. It's daring, and deeply felt, and often grimly funny." --The A.V. Club
"Using raw imagery, [Galloway] perfectly crafts Adam's philosophical, meandering account of his life and deaths. [...] Fans of gritty realistic fiction such as Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak and Jay Asher's Thirteen Reasons Why will appreciate Adam's thoughtful, authentic adolescent voice, and the honesty and boldness with which Galloway treats the issue of suicide." --School Library Journal
"Galloway has written a thoughtful, darkly humorous, philosophical novel with great chapter titles that reads, in a way, like homage to some of the greatest writers of literature, such as Franz Kafka, who suffered from depression [...] Galloway takes the stigma behind suicide and throws it out the window by incorporating bits of wisdom as well as facts about suicide that will be surprising to some." --VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocate)