Tag Archives: mental patients
** The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok
The Memory Palace is the tragic true story of the author’s schizophrenic mother and her daughter’s frantic efforts to survive a very tough childhood and make lives beside and despite their mother’s frantic efforts at dragging them into her deranged … Continue reading
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Homer and Langley by E.L Doctorow
Homer & Langley tells the fictional story of two real brothers who died in a Fifth Avenue mansion filled with treasures and detritus after a lifetime of collecting, much of which spent cut off from the world, having dismissed the … Continue reading
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The Soloist by Steve Lopez
The Soloist is the unlikely story of a homeless violinist who is befriended by a Los Angeles Times columnist (the author of the boook) and turns out to be an ex-Juilliard student who became schizophrenic while still in school and … Continue reading
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Lowboy by John Wray
Lowboy is a depressing novel about a young paranoid schizophrenic who stops taking his medication and escapes from the hospital into the vast city of New York, to wreak who knows what havoc. The police detective tasked with finding him … Continue reading
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The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
If, like me, you don’t care for football or don’t know much about it, don’t let the helmet on the cover of The Silver Linings Playbook deter you: this is a really good book! It’s the story of a recovering mental patient who … Continue reading
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Manic: a memoir by Terri Cheney
Manic is a terrifying and wonderful book. Written by an episodically successful lawyer (when she’s neither depressed or fully manic), it lays out the brutal reality of what it’s like to be bipolar in a world arranged for “normal” people. … Continue reading
Filed under Non fiction
