Jumia Books Shy by Max Porter

A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’re not aloneThis is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy.You mustn’t do that to yourself Shy. You mustn’t hurt yourself like that.He is wandering into the night listening to the voices in his head: his teachers, his parents, the people he has hurt and the people who are trying to love him.Got your special meds, nutcase?He is escaping Last Chance, a home for “very disturbed young men,” and walking into the haunted space between his night terrors, his past, and the heavy question of his future.