title: Crazy Is My Superpower: How I Triumphed by Breaking Bones, Breaking Hearts, and Breaking the Rules
author: A. J. Mendez
description: "This book is for every young woman who couldn't find a seat at the lunch table. AJ Mendez Brooks writes about loneliness, mental illness and finding her place in the world with genuine vulnerability and perhaps more importantly, genuine strength."<br /><b>Amy Koppelman, author of<i>A Mouthful of Air, Hesitation Wounds</i>and<i>I Smile Back</i></b><br /><br />" A.J. Mendez Brooks is a stunningly gifted writer. <i>Crazy Is My Superpower</i> is at once breathtakingly honest, hilariously funny , self-deprecating and incredibly inspiring. I absolutely loved every page of this book.<br /><b>Julie Klam<i>, New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Friendkeeping</i> and <i>You Had Me at Woof</i></b><br /><br />This woman is 52 of raw talent, heroic honesty, and gut-busting humor. AJs story left me both breathless and feeling like I should be jumping up and down shouting, Yes, yes, oh my god, f**k yes!!!!!<br /><b>Deborah Copaken, <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>Shutterbabe and The Red Book</i></b><br /><br />AJ Mendez Brooks candid account of her struggles and success offer young women a wonderful role model regarding how to be yourself, stand up for what you believe in and embrace the "crazy." AJ's story promotes empowerment, not just through physical strength, but through emotional strength as well.<br /><b>Dr. Jen Hartstein, Family Psychologist and author of <i>Princess Recovery</i></b><br /><br />This compelling memoir, written with genuine humor and strength, shows how AJ persevered over circumstances that a lesser human would have been destroyed by. She is truly a SuperHero.<br /><b>Caroline Rhea, Actor, TV Host, and Stand-up Comedian</b><br /><br />AJ Mendez Brooks is the role model we desperately need in todays culture! Authentic and inspiring, AJ embraces her challenges, bravely discusses her past, and shows us all how to turn pain intopower."<br /><b>Emily Roberts MA, LPC  The Guidance Girl Psychotherapist and author of </b><i><b>Express Yourself: A Teen Girls Guide to Speaking Up and Being Who You Are</b><br /></i><br />[Brooks] successfully uses her own life story to show how a perceived weakness can be an unstoppable strength.<br /><b><i>Library Journal</i></b><i><br /></i>
zlib_text: Copyright © 2017 by AJ Mendez Brooks
  All rights reserved.
  Published in the United States by Crown Archetype, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House
  LLC, New York.
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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  Names: Brooks, A . J., 1987– author.
  Title: Crazy is my superpower : how I triumphed by breaking bones, breaking hearts, and breaking the rules / AJ Brooks.
  Description: First edition. | New York : Crown Archetype, [2016]
  Identifiers: LCCN 2016027302| ISBN 9780451496669 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780451496676 (pbk.) | ISBN 9780451496683 (ebook)
  Subjects: LCSH: Brooks, A . J., 1987– | Women wrestlers—United States—Biography.
  Classification: LCC GV1196.B76 A3 2016 | DDC 796.812092 [B]—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2016027302
  ISBN 9780451496669
  Ebook ISBN 9780451496683
  Illustrations by Rob Guillory
  Cover des