Books like Dear stupid by Zandra Bridger

After her boyfriend dumps her post‑senior year, NY graduate Lu Charles, a popular love‑columnist, loses her voice and her NYU scholarship. Inspired by a breaking‑up couple’s last summer in New York City, she races to rediscover love—and her own writer’s resolve.

From Child Sexual Abuse to Adult Sexual Risk explores how early trauma shapes later sexual health, integrating epidemiology, traumatology, and prevention science to inform research and interventions for adult survivors.

Trauma and the Therapist guides clinicians through the challenges of countertransference and vicarious traumatization when working with abuse survivors, offering practical strategies to safeguard therapist well‑being and enhance therapeutic effectiveness.

Jane lived happily in Miami Beach with her father until his failed suicide attempt and relocation to a mental hospital forced her into the foster care system. By chance, Jane is assigned to foster parents in central Florida who are deeply involved in the Second Day Believers&mdasha cult focused on the cleansing of mental impurities in their children, and the sanctity of the internal organs of farm animals. Jane is quickly initiated into the Second Day Believers, but her father s lingering voice prevents her from becoming entirely indoctrinated. Despite Jane s resistance, she is revered in the cult as the second coming of the late wife of Sir One, the leader of the Second Day Believers. Poised to rise through the ranks of the insane cult and marry their leader, Jane must make a difficult choice. "Stupid Children" is a story inspired by Katherine Dunn s, "Geek Love," and written in a voice similar to Donald Barthelme. Hilarious, offbeat, fast-paced and wildly imaginative, Zion, a doctor of psychology, imbues her characters with bizarre psychological abnormalities to create vivid, memorable eccentrics that leap from the page. With deadpan, wonderful ruminations on tattoos, the nature of coincidence, drug use, father-daughter relationships, mental illness, violence, and deviant sexuality, this novel is destined to become a cult favorite."