Family Fractures (en Inglés) - A. Paige Turner

A gripping, emotionally charged family drama about mental illness, fractured relationships, and the painful truth that love can’t always fix what’s broken.

When seventeen-year-old Ethan is diagnosed with bipolar disorder, the future his family imagined for him begins to unravel.

But Ethan isn’t the only one struggling.

His stepmother sees a family becoming increasingly unstable and fears what might happen next. His biological mother is consumed by guilt, questioning every choice that brought them here. His father is caught between the people he loves, desperately trying to hold together a family already cracking under the pressure.

And Ethan’s little sister just wants to stop being afraid.

As Ethan struggles with his diagnosis, denial and self-destructive behavior push the family further toward its breaking point. Old resentments resurface. Loyalties are tested. Trust begins to disappear. And each member of the family is forced to confront a painful question:

How do you save someone you love when love alone isn’t enough?

Told through multiple perspectives, Family Fractures explores not only one young man’s mental health crisis, but the emotional ripple effects that spread through an entire family. It’s a raw and compassionate story about bipolar disorder, blended-family conflict, parental guilt, fear, stigma, and the complicated reality of loving someone through a crisis you cannot control.

Heart-wrenching, deeply human, and impossible to look away from, Family Fractures is for readers who love emotional, character-driven family fiction in the vein of Jodi Picoult, Celeste Ng, and Liane Moriarty.

Some families break apart. Others discover just how much breaking they can survive.