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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
This memoir is Virginia Holman's stunning debut and winner of the Pushcart Prize in 2001. Virginia delves into the often painful, occasionally joyful, moments of her childhood with a schizophrenic mother. Through touching honesty and self-reflection, Virginia confronts memories of a life in which reality and fantasy gradually became difficult to separate.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom. There was a script for a family like the Galvins--hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony--and they all tried to play their parts. But behind the closed doors of the house on Hidden Valley Road was a far different reality: psychological breakdown,...
5) Stella Maris
Author
Series
Passenger novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with the second volume of The Passenger series: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. 1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University...
6) Gothikana
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates/Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An outcast her entire life, Corvina Clemm is left adrift after losing her mother. When she receives the admission letter from the mysterious University of Verenmore, she accepts it as a sign from the universe. The last thing she expects though is an old, secluded castle on top of a mountain riddled with secrets, deceit, and death. An enigma his entire life, Vad Deverell likes being a closed book but knowing exactly everything that happens in the...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
One quiet spring day, Gracie Hollaman hears voices in her head that tell her to get in her car and leave her entire life behind -- her home, her husband, her daughter, her very identity. Gracie's subsequent journey releases her genius for painting and effects profound changes in the lives of everyone around her. Ultimately, her quest leads her into the home of Mama Toot and Mattie, two strong, accomplished women going through life changes of their...
Author
Publisher
Praeger
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
Description
Mark Vonnegut set out in search of Eden with his VW bug, his girlfriend, his dog, and his ideals, but genetic predisposition and a whole lot of **** going down made him crazy in a culture that told him mental illness is a myth and schizophrenia is a sane response to an insane society. Describing his experiences during the late '60s and early '70s, Eden Express reveals how Mark went from being a recent college grad who was in love and living communally...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Dazzlingly, daringly written, marrying the thoughtful originality of Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts with the revelatory power of Neurotribes and The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, this propulsive, stunning book illuminates the experience of living with schizophrenia like never before. Sandra Allen did not know her uncle Bob very well. As a child, she had been told he was "crazy," that he had spent time in mental hospitals while growing up in...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"All Kait Leddy had ever wanted was a little sister. When Kyleigh was born, they were inseparable; Kait would protect her, include her, cuddle and comfort her, and, to Kyleigh, her big sister was her whole world. As they grew, however, and as Kait entered adolescence, her personality began to change. She was lashing out emotionally and physically, and losing touch with reality in certain ways. The family struggled to keep this side of Kait private--at...
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When Molly McCloskey was a young girl, her brother Mike, 14 years her senior, started showing signs of paranoid schizophrenia. Through reading an astonishing archive of letters preserved by her mother and grandmother, and interviewing old friends of Mike's, she began to piece together a picture of his life.
15) The soloist
Publisher
Dreamworks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles Times reporter Lopez develops an unlikely friendship with a homeless musician.
18) Trigger city
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Investigating the death of a shy, unassuming woman for a grieving father brings Chicago PI Ray Dudgeon into a covert war between private contractors and the darkest sectors of our own government --a war that stretches from the closed-door hearings of Congress to the frontlines of Iraq.
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Lee weaves a picture of her life now as a queer woman with schizophrenia, and connects it to her childhood growing up in a household marked by abuse, illness, and absence. She dives headfirst into themes of intimacy, sexuality, growing up Korean American, and reconciling the disparate pieces of existence that make her whole. -- adapted from back cover
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