Just Benny

Book excerpt: Who is Benny Wellander? His classmates see him as the weird epileptic kid who has seizures and throws up all the time, the one who fails at everything he tries and doesn’t have any friends. His mother sees him as her baby and wants to protect and coddle him at any cost. Meanwhile, his father tries not to see him at all, preferring to hold himself aloof from a boy who is the total antithesis of everything he ever wanted in a son. Surrounded by so much confusion, how does Benny see himself? Is he defined by his illness and the resulting damage to his brain? Is he just rubbish at everything he does? Is he even worth loving? What will it take for him to come out of his prison of fear and insecurity and begin exploring who he was truly made to be?