At one point he writes up a “worry list” that includes notes such as “Worry expands to fill available time,” and “Even if something’s already happened, you can still worry about it.”
With a condition one school psychologist labels “anticipatory anxiety,” Joseph is consumed by his fretting.
He learns, and looks at life, differently than most.īeyond the uncertainties all preteens face, Joseph is burdened by a disparate set of phobias - from gargoyles to goose poop to hard-boiled eggs to his dread of the school bully, Charlie. In “Sidetracked,” a debut novel by Diana Harmon Asher, Joseph Friedman, a middle-school student, finds life to be a series of overwhelming distractions, all rushing toward him in ways his mind struggles to process.
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