The Disability Book Archive

[ID: A book cover. The background is white, with the silhouette of a young masculine individual stretching from the lower left corner to the upper right corner. In this silhouette, an image of a waves in the sea and grey clouds in the sky, Text in the bottom right corner of the cover reads:
The title “Carry the Ocean” in large black capitals, with “the” in smaller lowercase font,
The author’s name “Heidi Cullinan” in slightly smaller black capitals directly below this. /end]

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Content Warning:

• Panic Attacks
• Attempted Suicide- On Page
• References to Suicide
• Ableism
• Homphobia
• Bullying
• Emotional Abuse

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Summary:

Normal is just a setting on the dryer.

High school graduate Jeremey Samson is looking forward to burying his head under the covers and sleeping until it’s time to leave for college. Then a tornado named Emmet Washington enters his life. The double major in math and computer science is handsome, forward, wicked smart, interested in dating Jeremey—and he’s autistic.

But Jeremey doesn’t judge him for that. He’s too busy judging himself, as are his parents, who don’t believe in things like clinical depression. When his untreated illness reaches a critical breaking point, Emmet is the white knight who rescues him and brings him along as a roommate to The Roosevelt, a quirky new assisted living facility nearby.

As Jeremey finds his feet at The Roosevelt, Emmet slowly begins to believe he can be loved for the man he is behind the autism. But before he can trust enough to fall head over heels, he must trust his own conviction that friendship is a healing force, and love can overcome any obstacle.

Warning: Contains characters obsessed with trains and counting, positive representations of autism and mental illness, a very dark moment, and Elwood Blues.

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Notes:

There is an audiobook.

This is the first book in the The Roosevelt series.

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Archivist Comments:

Me: Normal isn’t a setting on a dryer though?

goes to check dryer

Me: Well would you look at that…

Not even embarrassed. This happens more than you might think.

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