Il giorno in cui mia figlia impazzì

by Michael Greenberg, Ilaria Katerinov (Translator)

Tra i più grandi successi editoriali degli ultimi anni, questa è una storia vera che si sorregge in precario equilibrio sull’ingannevole confine tra follia e normalità. È l’estate del 1996. Sally ha quindici anni ed è una ragazzina come tante, appena un po’ diversa dalle sue coetanee: vive a New York, ha un padre scrittore e una madre lontana, rapita dalla New Age. E poi la scuola, gli amici, una vera passione per la poesia. Spesso trascorre notti insonni sui libri con la sola compagnia di un walkman che suona ossessivamente le Variazioni Goldberg, perfetto tappeto musicale per le sue complicate riflessioni. Nessuno può immaginare che il filo di quei pensieri febbrili si farà sempre più intricato e difficile da governare, precipitando infine Sally in un viaggio vorticoso e terribile, “un viaggio verso chissà dove, senza una casa a cui tornare”. Disturbo bipolare, diranno i medici. Ma un’etichetta non basta per spiegare a un padre ciò che gli sta strappando via la figlia: “Ero stato io a insegnarle a parlare; io a raccontarle le prime favole” scrive Greenberg. “E ora, da un giorno all’altro, era diventata un’estranea.” Questo libro è la storia di una malattia devastante e del suo mistero. Della lotta portata avanti – clinica dopo clinica, di delusione in speranza – da un padre che non ha mai voluto arrendersi a essa. Del coraggio con cui ha scavato nel fondo della propria fragile normalità pur di scoprire il modo per sconfiggere il “mostro” senza annientare, nella foga della battaglia, anche la sua tenera preda.

Genres: Memoir, Nonfiction, Psychology, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Biography, Biography Memoir

205 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

A native New Yorker, Michael Greenberg is a columnist for the Times Literary Supplement (London), where his wide-ranging essays have been appearing since 2003. His fiction, criticism and travel pieces have been published in such disparate places as O Magazine, Bomb, The Village Voice, and the Boston Review.

His book Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer’s Life was published by Other Press in September 2009.

Greenberg’s memoir, Hurry Down Sunshine, about his teenage daughter’s sudden psychotic break, was published by Other Press in 2008, and has been sold in seventeen countries around the world. It will be published in a paperback edition by Vintage Books in 2009.

Reviews

[Jaime · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book, which is supposed to be about the mental breakdown of Greenberg's 15 year old daughter, seemed to me a far more self-serving statement of his own innocence in regard to his daughter's psychosis. We are told on almost every other page what a genius everyone thinks the author is. His performance artist wife, his hippie ex-wife, his elegant mother, his troubled daughter, his disturbed older brother. They ALL find time amidst what I would think a pretty serious family crisis, to let the author (and reader) know that Greenberg is a great guy. It certainly isn't his fault that his daughter is suffering. In fact, she's kind of a genius. And wouldn't you know it? SO IS HE!

Ugh. This whole thing rang so false to me that I had to force myself to finish it. It sheds almost no light whatsoever on what might actually be the cause of a young girl's psychotic episode, but offers a whole bucket full of reasons why you shouldn't think it had anything to do with her obviously unstable family.

[Fazilet Özdiker · Rating 4 out of 5]

"5 Temmuz 1996'da kızım aklını kaçırdı" cümlesi ile başlıyor Geri Dön Günışığım. Kızı Sally bipolar bozuklukla mücadele ediyor yazarın ve biz onun ağzından okuyoruz yaşananları. İlk atağını yaşıyor Sally, psikiyatri kliniğine gidişiyle de geri dönülmez bir hâl alıyor olanlar. Çocuğunun, dönüşü olmayacak bir şekilde kayboluşunu izlemekten daha korkunç hiçbir şey yokken bir de bunları yazıyor Greenberg. Konuşmayı öğrettiği, hikâyeler anlattığı kızının günden güne yabancılaşmasının acısını hem o hem de aile birlikte yaşıyor.    Kızından bahsederken, kendi hayatını da sorgulayıp ailesi ile olan ilişkisini de anlatmaya başlıyor yazar.

Şimdi tam burada devreye James Joyce giriyor. Hayat hikâyesini okuyanlar Joyce'un kızı Lucia'nın hasta olduğunu biliyordur. Ve Greenberg'in anlatımında da yer yer Joyce ve bazen de Beckett etkisi bulmak mümkün. (Lucia'nın, Beckett'in sevgilisi olduğunu da belirtmek isterim ve Lucia'nın akıl sağlığı kötüye giderken Beckett Lucia'dan ayrılmıştır.) Ki zaten yazar "Teşekkür" bölümünde de yararlandığı kaynaklarda Joyce biyografisini belirtmeyi ihmal etmiyor.

Aile hikâyeleri beni o kadar çok etkilerken, aynı anda hem Susan Çocuk hem de Geri Dön Günışığım aynı zamana denk geldi. İki sefer üzülüp iki sefer etkilendim bu nedenle. Bir baba kız hikâyesi, Fournier benzeri ama daha yumuşak ve duyarlı bir anlatım arayanlara kesinlikle tavsiye ediyorum.

[Jamie · Rating 1 out of 5]

One star. It was just not very good. I wanted to like it, but there was nothing that drew me in. Uninspired, poorly written, and boring.

I remember in high school I would quickly write a paper to get it in on time and then I would go back and find synonyms for some of the words that I thought sounded smarter, but it really just ruined the flow of the words. The book reminds me of that.

[Moira]

I liked this better than a number of people did, apparently; his external descriptions of his daughter's illness are spot-on, and he is surprisingly sympathetic and perceptive (for a parental figure, anyway) about what's going on in her head. I liked the writing in some of the nice little sketches -- the Hasidic family he met in the ward's waiting room, the story of his brother, his mother's amazing monologue -- enough to get his other book, too. Now that I look back on it, maybe the knitted-together quality of a collection of columns shaped into a book is slightly evident, but the seams hardly show. The ending, with Sally's return to school and Pat's bizarre dance project, is a little too neat -- and I was sort of horrified by Pat's invasion of Sally's privacy, altho Sally herself didn't seem to mind -- but the stoic, clipped series of updates in the postscript made it clear that severe, chronic illness doesn't end with one epiphany, or even one recovery. Sally seems to be doing better now, thankfully. I did wonder how the hell they paid for an inpatient stay, multiple psych med scripts, and four-times-weekly (IIRC) outpatient therapy with no insurance, but probably most people reading this book aren't going to need to wonder about that. Quite well-written.

[Lisa Vegan · Rating 3 out of 5]

I did really enjoy this; it held my attention. However, I had a really hard time always liking and understanding these people, even though I appreciated the author’s honesty. I couldn’t believe how psychologically unsophisticated the author was, especially given that he and his wife (his daughter’s stepmother) both have/had other important people in their lives who have experienced mental illness in the form of psychotic breaks and psychosis.

The author dissects his family but it felt as though it was from a distance, as though he was writing about someone else. For instance, he always refers to his parents by their first names. Yet, I was engaged throughout.

The author does give a great deal of background information and I know that this book is meant to be a memoir about a very brief period that covers his daughter’s first severe psychotic break, but I do wish I’d learned even more about these people, especially Sally.

All this said, the daughter and brother of the author are extremely fortunate to have strong family support; it’s relatively unusual.

Interestingly, I felt the most emotion when I read the postscript. It was only there that I felt that the long term emotional distress a bipolar 1 diagnosis can bring, was revealed, and done so because the author was simply relating what had happened since that initial summer. Reading the rest of the book, the diagnosis seemed to be presented as a foreign thing.

I hope the author makes a huge pile of money from this book and that it will help his daughter and everyone in the family.

[Chrissy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Michael Greenberg's memoir of the summer of 1996 describes the months that his daughter was dealing with manic psychosis and was diagnosed as "bipolar 1." It's much more a book about his reactions to her illness, as well as that of his brother and negotiating between his wife and his ex-wife than it is about Sally's actual illness, but it's the book that he's most qualified to write; he wasn't in her head, so he can't say exactly what she was feeling at the time. It's a unique experience that's well-worth the read, and it's a very quick book that's hard to put down!

[Judy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Heartsick parent memoirs. Sometimes I wonder why I read them, and sometimes I just have to put them down. Michael Greenberg's book, however, reads like finely tuned fiction. If he is heartsick at times, and who wouldn't be, he is also humorous, self-deprecating, but ever the journalist calling on the science of mental illness as well as the literature of madness even as he is mired in depression and regret.

Greenberg's world of characters --friends, family, and the inhabitants of the locked ward where his daughter lands for a month-- are, in the words of his mother 'meshuganeh.' But really, these people are no stranger than the rest of us, and the distinction between the 'walking wacky' and the 'certifiably mad' lies at the core of this jewel of a book. Far from a typical high school student, daughter Sally is quick-witted, sharp-tongued, and there is no doubt that her punning diatribes did not start with her descent into mania but instead just amplified, overwhelmed, and spun out of control with the rest of her thought processes. And the author's musings on the workings of a creative mind highlight why a bipolar in control is the life of the party and the heart of the ad agency.

That said, he does not allow us to believe that being bipolar (he points out people have cancer or have AIDS, but they are bipolar) is an exciting journey of discovery. It profoundly affects its victims and the people who love them. Per Greenberg: "In a single stroke her identity has changed; and by extension ours, as a family, has changed too...She's gone away like the dead, leaving this false shell of herself to talk at me in an invented dialect only it can understand." And, thank heavens, the flip side: "Something about her tone caught my attention: the modulation of her voice, its unpressured directness...It's as if a miracle had occurred. The miracle of normalcy, of ordinary existence."

This is a remarkable book. It's a quick read only insofar as the prose is seamless, but no summer beach reading this. Whether or not you're a heartsick parent or your family has been touched by mental illness, you will emerge at the end wondering at the incredible intricacies of the human mind.

[Nicole Rae · Rating 3 out of 5]

I ended up reading this straight through, cover to cover. It wasn't a very engaging read. To be sure, when your daughter experiences manic episodes and is diagnosed with Bipolar disorder type I, it's serious business. But honestly, Greenberg treats it like it's the end of the world. He has such trouble coping that he slaps his wife and demolishes a wooden door with his bare hands. Sally's brother acts like it's the worst thing in the world that could happen, like they couldn't even tell anyone.

DUDES. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH HAVING A MENTAL ILLNESS? NOTHING.

That's mostly what got under my skin with Hurry Down Sunshine. Everyone's treating Sally's diagnosis like it's the end of the world, when really, she's got it pretty damn easy. Her condition was relatively simple to manage with medication and witihin two months of her first manic episode she was ready to return to school. Some manics take years to get their episodes under control and never manage to return to normal functioning.

Sometimes I just wanted to shake Greenberg and say, "It's just bipolar disorder. Get the fuck over it." But then I remembered what it's really like living with someone with a mental disorder... it tears you apart and you really are waiting for them to just snap out of it one day, like if you give them enough love it'll be sufficient to make them "normal" again. When really, there is no more "normal." I've been where Greenberg was and I can say he pretty accurately described the coping process. And his prose was lyrical enough, even if it was sappy by turns.

I really did enjoy it, for what it's worth.

[Psicoleggimi · Rating 4 out of 5]

“Il 5 luglio del 1996 mia figlia è impazzita. Aveva quindici anni, e quel tracollo nervoso ha segnato una svolta nella sua vita, e nella mia. […] Avrei voluto acciuffarla e ricondurla sui suoi passi, ma non c'era modo. All'improvviso era svanito ogni punto di contatto tra noi due.”

Così inizia il romanzo di Michael Greenberg, scrittore statunitense del libro “Il giorno in cui mia figlia impazzì”, tratto dalla storia personale di Michael e di sua figlia, Sally, la quale, in seguito ad una crisi nervosa, viene ricoverata, delirante e completamente fuori di sé, nel reparto psichiatrico di un grande ospedale di New York. La diagnosi è quella di disturbo bipolare (DB).

Un paziente con questa diagnosi presenta diversi sintomi legati alle fluttuazioni dell’umore. Tendenzialmente le fasi depressive durano di più nel tempo, mentre le fasi maniache o ipomaniacali durano meno (da una settimana a poco più di un mese). Il passaggio tra queste due fasi può essere relativamente lungo, consentendo al paziente un periodo di benessere, oppure può essere repentino.

Durante le fasi depressive i sintomi vissuti dal paziente sono sovrapponibili a quelli di una depressione maggiore con un’espressiva perdita d’interesse verso le attività quotidiane, una tendenza all’isolamento e alla riduzione dei contatti sociali, una bassa autostima e via dicendo.

Nella nuova versione del Manuale Statistico e Diagnostico dei Disturbi Mentali, il DSM-5, Il DB viene separato dai disturbi depressivi e organizzato in una categoria unitaria, presentando diverse sottocategorie: Disturbo bipolare I (Episodio maniacale, ipomaniacale, depressivo); Bipolare II (episodio ipomaniacale, depressivo); ciclotimico (ansioso); indotto da sostanze o da farmaci; da condizioni mediche generali.

Greenberg non ha iniziato a scrivere nel 1996, durante la malattia della figlia, ma ha aspettato, meditato, e assorbito l'esperienza insieme a lei. Questo libro è un’esperienza reale, fragile, ma anche cruda e dura di chi ha sofferto in prima persona e ha vissuto questa malattia mentale ed è utile anche ai familiari, agli amici e a tutti quelli che vogliono essere vicini ai loro cari in difficoltà.

Recensione di Psicoleggimi

[zara haque · Rating 5 out of 5]

memoirs are probably my favorite kind of book, they always capture a deeper emotion that just scratches an itch. this memoir was incredibly well written, to the point i was really emotionally attached to sally. i don’t have too much to say tbh it’s just really good and i am officially out of my reading slump to my loyal followers who will probably never actually see this i don’t know how these reviews work tbh

[Mary K · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a tragic story but a good deal of what finally pulled me in emotionally was the epilogue! There was nothing wrong with the writing per se, but it just felt emotionally dead and I really don’t know why. I almost gave it 2 stars just because he slapped his wife in the face but I’m trying not to judge the author on the basis of one awful action.

[Judith Hannan · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wanted to read Hurry Down Sunshine because I, too, wrote a memoir regarding the illness of a child (in my daughter's case it was cancer) and I am also figuring out whether I have enough material to write a book regarding the temporary but traumatic breakdown in my mother's mental health when I was 11. I admired the fact that Greenberg chose to write the story of his daughter's psychosis. It is a burden and a responsibility to write about family, but readers welcome such bravery and openness. Greenberg is a good writer. As a craftman, I have few complaints about the book. As a storyteller, however, I was left unfulfilled. Greenberg fills his pages with all the necessary characters--his wife, ex-wife, brother, parents,and, of course, his daughter. But I felt as if I was dropped into their lives with no back story. This made it particularly difficult to understand the progression of the daughter's illness and what Greenberg was like as a father to her except that language/expression was a common ground. Since there is no before (except for a few indications that the daughter was "different"), it is hard to interpret the present. If you don't know a character, you can't take the journey with them. But this is a memoir about the father, so was it possible to journey with him? Here again, I would have to say no. We are told about a very complicated family set-up with two children in different parents' homes who then switch homes. There's a step-mother whom Greenberg my love but instead he appears to feel ambivalent about. She comes out with caustic comments for which we lack the understanding to interpret or weigh. He hits her at one point and several weeks later she says she wants to have a baby with him. I wanted to understand more about his anger and about her process for arriving at what was a basically a recommitment to him. There's a new age mother in Vermont with her new husband who seems to get off easy. And there's a brother who himself is psychotic whom Greenberg seems to spend more time talking about than his daughter. And there's a son who is basically non-existent until he suddenly appears. Context is critical and maybe Greenberg thought he was providing it by giving us all these people in his life, but they had no pulse and contributed little to the heartbeat of the book.

[Sarah Sammis · Rating 2 out of 5]

"On July 5, 1996, my daughter was struck mad." Thus begins Hurry Down Sunshine, Michael Greenberg's memoir of his daughter's diagnosis of bipolar disorder. One would expect this memoir then to focus on Sally, her diagnosis, treatment and perhaps some extra information about current research. It sort of does but not to the degree I had expected or wanted.

Instead Greenberg focuses on himself and his messed up relationship with his older brother who also has psychiatric problems. So much of the book seems to be about "why me" that I didn't feel enough of a loving connection between a father and daughter or between two brothers.

Hurry Down Sunshine has a few references to James Joyce's Ulysses. Structurally the two share a few similarities: long rambling sentences and no chapter breaks. That's where the similarities end. After the first fifty pages of Ulysses, even though I've struggled with them, I want to read more. After fifty pages of Hurry Down Sunshine, I didn't struggle with the passages but I didn't want to read more.

Interestingly, Sally, the daughter, has a quote in the book that sums up the flaws in the book succinctly: "'Poor, poor Father. Trying to get back your lost genius.'" (p. 31) In other words, Greenberg is trying too hard to write a meaningful memoir. By using all the flowery prose he loses the personal connection and therefore credibility.

I'm not questioning the hardship the Greenbergs must have gone through with Sally's initial breakdown or the on going difficulties that might still exist. The book though didn't make me feel anything that they might have felt. It didn't teach me anything new about the disease or the treatment of it. For these reasons the memoir doesn't work for me.

[Elaine · Rating 4 out of 5]

In the summer of 1996 the author’s fifteen year old daughter, Sally, experiences a major psychotic episode and he makes the hard decision to hospitalize her. While Sally is struggling through her psychosis in the hospital her whole family comes together to deal with the questions of why this happened and where to go from here. Just bringing her home is not the end of the line however, as there are still issues with stabilizing drug levels, getting Sally to the point where she can return to school, and the threat of a potential relapse.
This gritty memoir chronicles that single episode from onset to remission and the effect it had not only on Sally but on all those who are close to her. The fact that this is a work of non-fiction brings a real sense of poignancy to the narrative that is usually missing from similar fictional renderings, particularly as Sally begins to emerge from her episode and becomes acutely aware of how her mid-psychosis actions might have been viewed by her friends and neighbors.

[Madeline · Rating 3 out of 5]

In some ways I was impressed by this book and in others I was very much disappointed. While this book was written about the summer of his daughter's first manic episode, it was really very poorly contrasted to who this girl was previously. We hear the narrator (her father)mention how she acted briefly and then there is a short period where we see her go back to her "normal" self. But we have no initial basis for comparison. For this reason and others, the book comes off as a look into the father's psyche instead of being focused on his daughter's condition. It was disappointing in this aspect.

However, the emotion that is portrayed in the story is done very eloquently. I found it interesting that the author referenced James Joyce and his daughter Lucia so much, as I really felt that it wasn't the daughter's "crack-up" that we were witnessing but the father's. I felt, reading this book, that at times, I was going insane myself.

This book was really not what I was looking for when I picked it up.

[Karyl · Rating 5 out of 5]

In the summer of 1996, Greenberg's 15-year-old daughter Sally becomes mired in an episode of psychosis, severe enough to warrant her hospitalization. We are treated to glimpses of life inside a mental hospital, to the realization that even doctors are baffled by mental illness, to the love a man has for his daughter. Other reviewers have said that this book focuses too much on Greenberg himself, but it's his memoir about how all this affected him. His blunt honesty is so refreshing. Greenberg himself is not a very likeable man at times; during this incredibly stressful time he attacks his wife, but he makes no excuses for his terrible behavior, and neither does he attempt to brush it under the rug. He is so lost and at sea as to how to deal with Sally's illness, and he's unsure of how best to be her advocate. But how many of us could watch our children deteriorate to such a degree and handle it any better?

It would be incredibly interesting to read an account of Sally's experiences, to see psychosis as someone experiencing it.

[Diane · Rating 3 out of 5]

A disturbing book. This is a father's memoir of the summer his 15 year old daughter had a psychotic break. I have read a number of books on mental illness, but always told by the patient. For me, the story told by the parent has more resonance and is frightening and very upsetting. We have 7 children, 9 grandchildren and have gone through many version of hell with them, but as yet, nothing like this. The book frightened me.

I have a dear colleague whose wonderful, talented and brilliant college age daughter suffered a psychotic break about two years ago. I have another new friend who deals repeatedly with her twenty-something son's mental illness. And I have another intelligent, spiritual, compassionate friend who became a psychiatrist. I read this book for them. They are some of the best people in the world.

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book. I learned about Greenberg's family dynamic, and the difficulties and stigmas that accompany mental illness.

The writing style is refreshing, very slow, discussing the trials and tribulations that accompany any family. I really liked the way that the author intertwined events of the period, i.e. the Clinton re-election, 1996 Olympics, with the going-ons in his own family. In addition, the author seemed to really do a great job communicating his own feelings, and I enjoyed his introspective style.

[Denise Fisher · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is the most pretentious, self-indulgent book I have ever read. I can almost guarantee, if left in a room with the author, one would suffocate under his hot air infused pompousness. Although the book claimed to have been about a young girl and her decent into mental illness, readers were served a banquet of the author's failed relationships, financial irresponsibility, and complete narcissism, as well as his unaddressed domestic violence and ingestion of his daughter's medications. Run away from this book!

[Lahierbaroja · Rating 1 out of 5]

No he conectado con el libro, y mira que me da rabia porque el tema da mucho de sí, pero creo que se pretende adornar demasiado el texto sin prestar atención a lo verdaderamente importante: la fuerza de una temática tan dura. Y es que entre los saltos temporales, las repeticiones y la continua justificación del padre el tema se desvirtúa y al final uno hasta se aburre.


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[Jack · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fascinating and moving account of a man whose daughter is admitted to a psych ward at 15. It follows his daughter's (Sally's) struggle, as well as his, his wife's and his family's struggle with her illness. The book is almost embarrassingly honest and direct at times. Also has interesting sidebars about famous artists who suffered from similar ailments. I read it in 2 days. Totally held my interest!

[Lorie Bonano · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was in awe of this book and the courage that it took not only to write it, but more importantly to live it. It's amazing how this "illness" came up seemingly so suddenly, but was life changing for all of them. Definitely a great read. I thought it was written in simple words dealing more with the feelings than the technical issues. Loved it!

[Lex · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great slice-of-life memoir. It chronicles a single summer in the '90s from the perspective of a freelance writer whose teenage daughter has an unexpected mental breakdown. Greenberg paints a gritty, realistically dysfunctional portrait of his family life and the mental ward. Most of the plot of the book happens inside Greenberg's head as he reckons with his daughter's illness. I appreciated the honesty in this book -- Greenberg didn't pull any punches when sharing his thoughts and actions, which sometimes got cringe-worthy. (I don't mind an unlikeable narrator but if you do, this book may not be for you.) My main complaint is that the ending of "Hurry Down Sunshine" felt rushed. I almost would have preferred not to know what happened to Greenberg's daughter after that summer rather than have it all shoved into the epilogue.

[Irene Dela · Rating 3 out of 5]

Un llibre molt interessant a llegir, sobretot si treballes en el món de la salut mental o si coneixes algún cas pròxim.

En aquesta lectura es pot conèixer l'experiència d'un pare envers el diagnòstic maniaco-depressiu de la seva filla en plena adolescència: des dels primers brots que el fan sospitar, passant pel tractament mèdic fins a arribar a poder dur una vida normalitzada.

Trobo que l'autor fa un treball xulo, exposant-se emocionalment i explicant situacions que, sens dubte, li haurà costat horrors escriure. També hi ha una crítica a mode reflexiu de com funciona el sistema mèdic en l'àmbit mental, ja sigui tant amb els pacients com amb els familiars que els acompanyen.

[Anne Lederer · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF.
Es gibt keinen roten Faden, der Autor driftet viel zu oft in irgendwelche kleinen Stories von anderen Personen oder aus der Vergangenheit ab. Und es geht kaum um die Tochter bzw. den Umgang mit ihrer Krankheit sondern vielmehr um eine Selbstdarstellung des Autors.

[Ned Andrew Solomon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Three and a half stars. A well-written memoir ostensibly about a father and his 15-year-old daughter who has a psychotic break. The book also addresses the mental illness of his brother, who the author is the primary caregiver for, and his strained relationships with his ex-wife, his current wife, and his New York City landlord. Much more about Greenberg himself - and his reactions to the loved ones around him - and disappointingly, to me, not quite enough about the daughter's crisis. The language is somewhat overwrought, which tends to create in the reader an enotional distance from the people who are experiencing the mental health challenges.

[belisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

gözlemci, içten ve dürüst bir metindi...
çok şey anladım

[Stephanie Wildermuth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Op een leedtijd van 15 jaar gelezen en vond het een indrukwekkend boek. Wil hem graag nog een keer lezen.

[Madison Boboltz · Rating 3 out of 5]

*3.5

[Lacey · Rating 3 out of 5]

I listened to this book on audio CD. This book was written by the father of a girl that struggled with mental health issues in her teens. I liked that it was from a father's perspective, which I don't see often when reading this type of memoir.