Head Case - Hardcover

Aronson, Sarah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1596432144 ISBN 13: 9781596432147

Publisher: Roaring Brook Press, 2007

Synopsis

ONE MISTAKE.  ONE BAD NIGHT.  ONE TOO MANY DRINKS.  A powerful and heartbreaking debut novel about a guy who had it all...until he drank that fifth beer and got into the car. Frank Marder is a head, paralyzed from the neck down, and it's his fault.  He was drinking.  He was driving.  Now Frank can't walk, he can't move, he can't feel his skin.  He needs someone to feed him, to wash him, to move his body. But if you ask most of the people who are posting on www.quadkingonthenet, he hasn't been adequately punished.  Two people are dead because of him.  Frank should go to jail.  Only "Annonymous" disagrees.

About this title

About the Author:

Sarah Aronson is a former physical therapist who lives in Hanover, New Hampshire.  This is her first book.

From Booklist:

"One mistake. One bad night. One too many drinks." Radiating anger and despair, Frank—paralyzed from the neck down in the wake of a traffic accident that also killed a classmate and a pedestrian—checks out of the hospital and into the care of his overprotective mother and generally absent father. Aronson tucks credible details into her bleak cautionary tale, such as Frank's increasing sensitivity to sounds and to the taste of each bite of food. She also gives him a no-nonsense occupational therapist who briskly fills him in on sexual techniques for quadriplegics and gets him out of the house for wheelchair driving lessons. The ending is tidy: Frank sees his parents coming back together over him, and he begins to climb out of his inner slough thanks to an unexpected ally and his decision to address a high-school assembly. But this will make a strong impression on readers with its raw emotion and bitter narrative tone. Peters, John

About this edition

• Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1596432144
• ISBN 13: 9781596432147
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192