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Leanne Toshiko Simpson

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Leanne Toshiko Simpson

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Leanne Toshiko Simpson is a mixed-race Yonsei writer who lives with bipolar disorder. Named Scarborough’s Emerging Writer in 2016 and nominated for the Journey Prize in 2019, she co-founded a reflective writing program at Canada’s largest mental health hospital and teaches at the University of Toronto. Never Been Better is her debut novel.

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Never Been Better

3.51 avg rating — 1,674 ratings — published 2024 — 12 editions
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“Sometimes I don't know if I actually have a mental illness or if I'm just a bad person.”
Leanne Toshiko Simpson, Never Been Better

“I wondered if perhaps Elinor would understand- in a way my own parents never seemed to- how it felt to carry around the potential to harm the people you loved best, just by nature of your being.”
Leanne Toshiko Simpson, Never Been Better

“...I often feel that ugly-sick is the most genuine iteration of myself. Sometimes I am delicately depressed, like a wet tissue-paper flower, and then there are times when I am in my terry-cloth bathrobe screaming at my parents for telling me I'm not well enough to drive and it feels like I have to shed my skin like a snake and I'm burning up in the sun, thinking in sharp cardiovascular spikes, 'This is who I really am, this is why I deserve nothing, this is why you should leave me.”
Leanne Toshiko Simpson, Never Been Better

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