Lesser known than Journal Anne Frank, but more than mine (if I wanted one), I just finished The Blue Grass, newspaper a young girl of 15 . According editions, you can also read "diary of a young junkie for 15 years" and I found this subtitle too simplistic.
While the girl in question has been dragged into the infernal spiral of drugs, alternating periods of true decay (fugue, prostitution, sale, etc ...) and moments of false hope through the unfailing love of his parents. But
The Blue Grass is above all a testimony of the torments of adolescence, first love, first loves, first times, first disillusionment, and family relationships locked in "I love you, moi non plus" .
But there is a je ne sais quoi that bothered me throughout this reading ... And doing some research on the internet, I may have found the answer to my question. This book is a fake! a "false" if you prefer.
The Blue Grass (original title Go Ask Alice ) was published anonymously as a diary in 1971, but has since been assigned to the American psychologist Beatrice Sparks. Presented as a diary of the author's 15 years, it has proved be a work of fiction written by an American psychologist later became editor.
Only a few years later she acknowledges to be its author. It then explains in an interview that the book was composed in part of the diary of one of his patients but also fictional events inspired by his work with other troubled teens. This was going
certainly a good intention ... But imagine a young person concerned in the matter read this book and then learns the truth about its author: how could you blame him not to trust adults, to feel betrayed, and especially not to know who to trust?
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