Review : Breaking Out - Robert Brink

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We first had a  coming of age novel for girls and now for the flip side , one for the male readers out there , brought to you by author Bob Brink we have his novel "Breaking Out".
Review: Breaking Out - Bob Brink - June 2010
After reading Practice Cake by Dalya Moon , it was interesting to read Breaking out by Bib Brink and recieve a male's POV. Set in the 1950's in America - a society that was still in the old-school type of thinking , the years before the free-spirited of love and passion hit in the 60's we meet teenager Britt . Unlike his mates who are talking about hard-on's , sex and girls , he hasn't yet reached the level of feeling alright to talk about it . Britt has grown up in an environment where he has been described as emotionally sensitive and naive and now he is about to discover just how innocent he is as he reaches into the stage of awkwardness, self-consciouness and most of all confusion. Britt tries hard to hide his feelings until one night during a bowling game , they all come tumbling out and he soon finds himself the victim of taunts . Desperate and miserable , Britt tries to turn to the two people he thought he could trust in the world - his parents only to find himself shipped off to an institution and eventually diagnosed as a schizophrenia. What was scary about Breaking out is that it describes the way Mental Health was dealt with back then with shock treatments etc. The rest of the novel describes Britt's up's and down's and his journey through the mental health system and eventually getting to the root of the problem and discovering the true Britt.  A novel that I think guy's will enjoy more than girls as it explains a teenage guy's transformation from Teenagehood to adulthood .

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