Shusterman put a lot of time and research into this novel which is explained lightly in the Acknowledgements and Author's Note, and a two page spread filled with resources meant to help people who need help dealing with mental illness, and I assume he at least used a few of them. Books like this are so hard to find, or maybe just in my experience, but I believe this is a novel that should by read by everyone in the hopes they can learn even the tiniest bit about what people like the ones in this novel go through and we can all work towards extending empathy towards them and making their lives just the tiniest bit easier.