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Bipolar Buddies: Just Keep Going

Bipolar Buddies: Just Keep Going

Kraig, Ben

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN13: 9798189316395
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 27 2026
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Three strangers. One café. Twenty-six chapters of learning how to stay.

I am still here. That's the whole thing. That's all I wanted to be able to say.

Polie is seven years sober, meticulous with his routines, and terrible at letting people in. Skip is a fast-talking Australian graphic designer whose therapist has assigned him the task of being present. Blu is quiet, watchful, and carrying something he hasn't named yet.

They meet by accident at a Seattle café on a rainy Saturday in January. Skip waves a stranger over. Blu says sure like he's testing the weight of the word, and a friendship begins. Not with a dramatic moment, but with pancakes, a breakfast burrito, and a second cup of coffee.

BIPOLAR BUDDIES: Just Keep Going follows Polie, Skip, and Blu across twenty-two months of Saturday mornings, late-night texts, honest conversations, and the kind of slow, stubborn healing that doesn't make for a good montage but makes for a real life.

This is a novel about resilience, sobriety, and the mess of being human, told without clinical distance or easy resolution. It is funny when the characters are funny. It is heavy when they are heavy. It does not flinch, and it does not rush.

What readers will find inside:

- A warmly honest portrayal of learning to live with neurodivergence

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