{"product_id":"the-burn-journals-a-memoir-9781400096428","title":"The Burn Journals: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFans of \u003ci\u003eThirteen Reasons Why, Running with Scissors, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Girl, Interrupted \u003c\/i\u003ewill be entranced by this remarkable true story of teenage despair and recovery. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eThe Burn Journals\u003c\/i\u003e] describes a particular kind of youthful male desolation better than it has ever been described before, by anyone.\" --Andrew Solomon, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Noonday Demon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1991, fourteen-year-old Brent Runyon came home from school, doused his bathrobe in gasoline, put it on, and lit a match. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe suffered third-degree burns over 85% of his body and spent the next year recovering in hospitals and rehab facilities. During that year of physical recovery, Runyon began to question what he'd done, undertaking the complicated journey from near-death back to high school, and from suicide back to the emotional mainstream of life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBRENT RUNYON is a writer and regular contributor to public radio programs, including \u003ci\u003eThis American Life, \u003c\/i\u003e where portions of his award-winning memoir, \u003ci\u003eThe Burn Journals, \u003c\/i\u003e first aired. \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e praised \u003ci\u003eThe Burn Journals\u003c\/i\u003e as \"the defining book of a new genre, one that gazes unflinchingly at boys on the emotional edge.\" In his novels \u003ci\u003eMaybe\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSurface Tension, \u003c\/i\u003e he retains that raw honesty. Mr. Runyon lives on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50464873185554,"sku":"9781400096428","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ad7b3f32-928a-4456-8911-47edfa684b49.jpg?v=1730108828","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-burn-journals-a-memoir-9781400096428","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}