The novel is told in 1st person by a high-school grad entering the adult world (sorta). The book starts off on the morning of the last day of school, and the first few chapters go through this day. The character experiences several girls flirting with him and one gives him a note he forgets about until later in the book, but he ignores them as he has a girlfriend. Later that day, his girlfriend breaks up with him after 3 years.
A few weeks later, the main character moves to phily and gets there via train. He explores Philadelphia for awhile and meets a few other characters and his apartment neighbor. He meets up with past girls he has known and etc, etc, etc. (lots of mini stories here...)
(this is where the story picks up) He reads a note from the girl that states his girlfriend is getting abused. He goes back to his city, and finds out who is abusing her. He confronts him later on and ends up killing him. He hitchhikes back to Philadelphia and goes to a safehouse to stay.
(at this point in the story, you realize the main character is very neurotic and has something wrong with him, and something about the story doesn't make sense at all.) One night, he wakes up and doesn't realize where he is at. Then he hears a knock at the door and a family is there. They are shocked to see a kid living at their house. He runs out of the house and sees the girl he gave him the note. However, something about there conversation strikes him as odd and unbelievable. He goes to a park near by, and realizes that he himself is neurotic and something about all of the situation is not right. Based on clues throughout the book, he learns that the girl wasn't real, characters aren't real, the note wasn't real, his apartment neighbor wasn't real, the safehouse was just a house whose family was on vacation.
He goes to a police station to confess a murder. Then one final twist in the novel. The person he murdered wasn't real either. He is diagnosed with schizophrenia and writes the novel to promote awareness for schizophrenia. He finds out his former girlfriend was pregnant and gave birth to his son while he was in a mental institution. And he lives with her and his son. The end
And I am taking this novel very seriously, so I am reading up on schizophrenia a lot. I have already talked to psychologist to make sure schizophrenia could explain everything that occurred in the book. I am also taking a week long trip next week with my girlfriend to Philadelphia. WE are going to explore the city and take hundreds of photos.
And sorry for the awful summary (you try summarizing a novel in a few paragraphs in a minute or two). I just want to know if this is something you would want to read and purchase if you saw it on a bookshelf. And don't judge my writing at all by this post or my poetry i have posted here. My writing in the novel is very different. I just want the storyline judged.
Thank you
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