What if you could read the thoughts teenagers are too afraid to say out loud?

Written entirely while Adrien Kabunga was 16 (now aged 18), The Mind of a 16-Year-Old is an unfiltered collection of poetry and prose about the chaos of adolescence: anxiety, identity, loneliness, pressure, grief, self-doubt, fleeting joy and the exhausting performance of pretending everything is fine.

Structured across seven acts, the book moves through inner turmoil, darkness and ultimately towards the first signs of something changing. Adrien writes from inside the experience rather than looking back on it, capturing the immediacy of being young, overwhelmed and still trying to understand who you are. 

Raw, intimate and strikingly honest, this is a book for anyone who has ever wondered whether they were the only person feeling this much.

Adrien writes for every soul who has ever felt lost, unworthy, or unseen. A raw and haunting reminder that even shattered voices and endless voids carry beauty, and that within the chaos of being sixteen, there's poetry.

"For all the 16-year-old souls that never healed, that are going through it, and to everyone who felt unseen. This is for you."