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Jason Schmidt’s memoir, *A List of Things That Didn’t Kill Me*, chronicles his junior‑year high school life when he discovers his father Mark in a grotesque, bloody scene—an event that has become routine after Mark’s HIV diagnosis three years earlier. Over the years, Jason has lived with a host of family secrets involving drugs, crime, and sex. He explains that if the public ever learns of these truths, law enforcement could intervene, thereby tearing his home apart. From preschool onward, the rule has been to keep these matters concealed from the “straights.” The book offers a darkly humorous yet strikingly honest look at how a young boy finds his moral compass in a world that feels devoid of one.
First publish date: 2015
Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction
Authors: Jason Schmidt
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