About the Book Wide Awake is a collection of interviews with the objects that fill the background of our lives. Madison is young and finally living on her own, working through the surprises of growing up, heartbreak, and her newly diagnosed mental illness. Her story is told through journal entries and the unexpected perspective of the objects.--page 4 of cover. Book Synopsis Revealed through a series of journal entries, the story of Wide Awake explores the perspectives of inanimate, everyday objects, surveying Madisons interior life as she navigates early adulthood.