![]() ![]() ![]() Turtles All the Way Down begins mysteriously, as the disappearance of a millionaire accused of fraud and bribery-and a $100,000 reward for his return-inspires Aza and her best friend, Daisy, to track him down. It is an appropriate cover, as the YA megastar John Green attempts many metaphorical translations of obsessive thoughts in his compelling narrative of sixteen-year-old Aza Holmes, an Indianapolis teen living with anxiety and OCD. The ominous, ever-present and seemingly infinite spiral of thoughts that plague those struggling with illnesses like anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and depression are represented by a broad orange corkscrew on the cover of John Green’s newest book, Turtles All the Way Down. ![]() In some ways, pain is the opposite of language. It can’t be represented the way a table or a body can. ![]() You often try to understand your experience through a metaphor, Aza: It’s like a demon inside of you you’ll call your consciousness a bus, or a prison cell, or a spiral, or a whirlpool… One of the challenges with pain-physical or psychic-is that we can really only approach it through metaphor. ![]()
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