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Try Not To Worry & The People Pictured Here, Rachel Wolf

WWU Graduate School Collection

The non-fiction collection, Try Not to Worry, follows the Wolf family through the mental and physical decline of Alex Wolf, the family's third child. As Alex enters adolescence, he struggles increasingly with clinical anxiety, made worse by his perception of himself as inadequate. The third of four children, and the second son, he feels himself to be an appendage to what could be a complete family unit without his presence. Alex's troubles are seen only through others' eyes. His parents surprisingly are not given an essential role in Try Not to Worry. Even as they seek to solve Alex's problems …