Debut coming-of-age novel from the "indelible, shrewd and frank and real" (Emily Gould) writer DAZED describes as "a combination of Denis Johnson and Joan Didion"A shockingly dark, funny, and heartbreaking portrait of a young teenager's clash with mental illness and her battle toward understanding and recoveryAmbitious, talented 14-year-old honors student Juliet is poised for success at her Southern California high school. However, she soon finds herself on an increasingly frightening spiral of drug use, self-harm, and mental illness that lands her in a remote therapeutic boarding school, where she must ultimately find the inner strength, and determination, to survive. This highly anticipated debut--from the writer hailed as "a combination of Denis Johnson and Joan Didion" (Dazed)--brilliantly captures the intimate triumph of a girl's struggle to become the woman she knows she can be."Juliet Escoria's voice is unmistakable: riveting, harrowing, and funny. In Juliet the Maniac, she tells a story about addiction and mental illness that subverts our expectations and reveals new truths about gender, power, and the unexpected ways we can both heal and be harmed." --Emily Gould, author of Friendship"Juliet the Maniac is a late-nineties Bell Jar, a Girl, Interrupted in gloomy sunny Southern California, an autofiction from a former reform-school pirate princess. Teenage girls forever (and other people who exist, too): Read this book."--Katherine Faw, author of Ultraluminous"Not since Kathy Acker has a writer given us such an unapologetic and dazzling view from the inside-out of adolescence. A voice and style triumph. A brilliant cry against cultural girl inscriptions." --Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Book of Joan"Beautiful...fresh and forthright."--Library Journal"Searing...a moving and intimate portrait of girlhood and mental illness."--Publishers Weekly"Vivid, fantastic."--Kirkus Reviews"An explosive work of autofiction."--Booklist"A propulsive, addictive story."--Nylon"An author to watch."--Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times"An exciting first novel."--Bustle"A novel of dream-like clarity."--Entropy"A singularly beautiful piece of work--honest, unaffected, fascinating."--Nico Walker, author of Cherry