Me on the Floor, Bleeding - Softcover

J�gerfeld, Jenny

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9789175470115: Me on the Floor, Bleeding

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ISBN 10: 917547011X ISBN 13: 9789175470115

Publisher: Stockholm Text, 2014

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Awarded the August Prize for Best Youth Novel.

"I really loved this book—the fierce and honest testimony of a blazingly creative personality."—Elizabeth Wein

High school outsider Maja would never hurt her�self on purpose as her dad, teachers, and classmates seem to believe. Can't a person saw off the tip of her thumb without everyone starting to worry? That is, everyone except Maja's mum, who seems to have disappeared from the face of earth.

Crashing a neighbor's party, Maja meets twenty-year-old Justin Case, a super-verbal car mechanic with pink pants, who makes her forget everything about absent mothers and sawn-off thumbs, at least temporarily. But then Maja hacks into her father's e-mail account and reads an e-mail that hurts more than all the electric saws in the world.

In this funny and clever coming-of-age novel, seventeen-year-old Maja describes each moment with such bare-bones honesty that one can't help but be drawn into her world. Wise beyond her years yet still surprisingly na�ve, her story is entertaining and enlightening, at turns both hilarious and bittersweet.

Jenny J�gerfeld is a professional psychologist specializing in young adult psychiatric care in Sweden. She also works as a consultant with young adults on a long-running psychology program on Swedish national radio. Me on the Floor, Bleeding is her first novel to be translated into English and has been awarded the coveted August Prize for Best Youth Novel.

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About the Author:

Jenny J�gerfeld, author of Me on the Floor, Bleeding, was in 2010 rewarded with The August Prize for best youth novel in Sweden. It’s her first novel translated to English.
Originally a child psychologist she now runs her own psychologist practice in Stockholm. She also works for the Swedish national radio, in a radio show about psychological matters.

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