Laurie Halse Anderson's young-adult fiction novel titled Speak contains themes of trauma, isolation, depression, social anxiety, and coming-of-age. Based on these themes, I can recommend the following books and films as being similar.
First, you may be interested--or possibly already know of--the film adaptation of the book Speak, which was released in 2004. I can also recommend much of Anderson's other work as dealing with troubled youth. Wintergirls is very similar because it offers an...
Laurie Halse Anderson's young-adult fiction novel titled Speak contains themes of trauma, isolation, depression, social anxiety, and coming-of-age. Based on these themes, I can recommend the following books and films as being similar.
First, you may be interested--or possibly already know of--the film adaptation of the book Speak, which was released in 2004. I can also recommend much of Anderson's other work as dealing with troubled youth. Wintergirls is very similar because it offers an inside perspective on a young person going through difficult times. Though Wintergirls deals more with grief and eating disorders, there are similar connotations of violation of the body and personhood in both books.
Some other books which deal with sexual assault are Faking Normal by Courtney Stevens and All the Rage by Courtney Summers. John Green's Looking for Alaska has a similar "un-packing" or resolution of past trauma. With regards to social alienation and isolation, both Cut by Patricia McCormick and The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky explore the strange, internal conflict of being a teenager.
The film Painful Secrets (2000) deals with a teenage girl who struggles with depression and engages in self-harm. We Were the Mulvaneys (2002) is quite similar to Speak because it explores sexual assault and the high-school social dynamic.
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