Fourteen

I Had Always Heard Of Our Family Curse. I DidnT Believe In Such A Thing Of Course But The Previous Generation Had Been Highly Influenced By It. The Curse Was This: Our Family Would Be Extremely Healthy For Yearsno Sudden Deaths Tragedies Or Health Troubles. But Then Quite Unexpectedly Someone Would Die And This First Death Would Herald A Series Of Others. At Times Laugh-Out-Loud Funny And At Times Heartbreaking Fourteen: The Other Side Of Someones Story Is The Story Of A Young Man Struggling With Grief Addiction And Online Harassment. It Is A Journey Through Drug Use And Depressionan Unsentimental Portrait Of A Family Placed Under Immense Pressure And A Window On Our Modern World In Which Social Media Has So Quickly Changed All The Rules. Hilarious Terrible And Beautiful By Turns Fourteen: The Other Side Of Someones Story Is An Autobiography Of A Different Kind Capturing The Fears And Dilemmas Of A Generation More Connected Than Ever Before But Also More Vulnerable For The Very Same Reasons. From The Surfing Breaks Of Bali To Sleeping Under Bridges In London The Story Deals Unflinchingly With Death Trolling Loneliness And The Difficulties Of Finding Love In Our Online Age.