Marni is the powerful true-life story of one girl's painful relationship with her father following her parent's divorce‚ her turbulent adolescence resulting in depression and homeschooling‚ and her ultimate discovery that she suffers from a relatively rare and misunderstood stress disorder called trichotillomania‚ which causes people to pull out their body hair.
An estimated 10 -20% of children worldwide have one or more mental health or behavioral problems‚ and approximately 4 million youth ages 9 - 17 suffer from a major mental health disorder. Marni will be inspirational to the thousands of girls who keep blogs‚ journals and write poetry as a form of self-espression.
Marni is part of a unique series of teenage memoirs. Memoirs in the teen arena are almost exclusively written by adults reflecting on their past. At the age of writing her memoir‚ Marni Bates is 18 yeasr old. Her fantastic prose and often humorous approach to a difficult subject make her memoir a powerful page-turner.
