"Screaming Into The Void" is a brutally realistic and insightful psychological drama about being a sensitive, thoughtful person in a culture that drives people mad. If you've ever been an outsider, dealt with depression, felt overlooked by society, or wondered how humanity got itself into this absurd mess, this book is for you.
Eris Moon is severely depressed. Her only family member is dying, she’s impoverished, has no friends, hates school, has no prospects for the future, and she cannot find a single reason to live. Lost and alone, every day new obstacles present themselves to be analyzed by her powerful and witty neurotic mind.
While reluctantly attending high school she navigates the harsh realities of that place, dealing with vapid ignorant peers, sadistic bullies, and indifferent adults in a broken uncaring system. When her path crosses with Barbie, the most popular girl in school, a mysterious interaction begins to drastically alter Eris’ life for reasons she cannot comprehend.
Eris has to deal with her unstable emotional situation while trying to finish school, enter the workplace, cultivate a potential relationship, and prepare herself for the responsibilities of being alone in the world very soon. If she can’t get a handle on it all, suicide is always a valid option.
Reads like a nonfiction memoir. As someone who's been through many of the struggles faced by Eris, it seems only someone who's been through the same could depict those emotions.