Essays about schizophrenia and related conditions. Written by a multiple-award winning author (and highly skilled essayist) with a schizoaffective disorder diagnosis. Draws heavily on memoir, of course. Intense, powerful, honest, sometimes hard to read, occasionally funny, and very well written. I can imagine it would be a topic where it would be easy to overdo the writing, but instead she makes incredibly effective use of quiet juxtaposition, matter-of-fact description, restrained language, even understatement. The sort of thing everyone should read – particularly people who have people in their lives who have a related diagnosis, certainly, but reducing it to a ‘very special episode’ opportunity for learning also risks underplaying its literary merit.
Originally posted by Scott on Goodreads.