“It feels authentic—and positive.” Cleo’s story begins in a hospital, much like the one Naomi found herself in when she was a fresh-man at New York City’s Stuyvesant High School. After struggling with...
As Naomi began to improve with therapy and medication, Ethan realized he didn’t just wantto write a story for his daughter—he needed her help in telling it. “I thought it would offer some catharsis fo...
" Because of her own history, Naomi was able to provide true-to-life details for the story, like the centering techniques Cleo uses to calm herself, which Naomi learned in dialectical behavior therapy...
” After writing together, “I had more of an understanding of what she went through,” Ethan says. For Naomi, who just finished her sophomore year in environmental studies at McGill University in Montre...