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That's Not a Feeling
That's Not a Feeling | DAN JOSEFSON
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Benjamin arrives with his parents for a tour of Roaring Orchards, a therapeutic boarding school tucked away in upstate New York. Suddenly, his parents are gone and Benjamin learns that he is there to stay. Sixteen years old, a two-time failed suicide, Benjamin must navigate his way through a new world of morning meds, popped privileges, candor meetings and cartoon brunches—all run by adults who themselves have yet to really come of age. The only person who comprehends the school's many rules and rituals is Aubrey, the founder and headmaster. Fragile, brilliant, and prone to rage, he is as likely to use his authority to reward students as to punish them. But when Aubrey falls ill, life at the school begins to unravel. Benjamin has no one to rely on but the other students, especially Tidbit, an intriguing but untrustworthy girl with a "self-afflicting personality." More and more, Benjamin thinks about running away from Roaring Orchards—but he feels an equal need to know just what it is he would be leaving behind.
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heylaurenmack
That's Not a Feeling | DAN JOSEFSON
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Finished up this morning. I‘ll admit this book wasn‘t what I thought it was. I‘m usually not a fan of the whole kids on adventure or kids coming of age situation. The problematic behavioral home with it‘s weird rules saved it for me though.

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heylaurenmack
That's Not a Feeling | DAN JOSEFSON

A lot of mixed reviews on Goodreads for this title but giving it a shot anyway. 75 pages in and enjoying the narrator switch between his perspective and what the other kids in the school were up to while his experience was happening.