5/28/2023 0 Comments Turtles all the way down aza![]() 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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