The Art of Misdiagnosis: Surviving My Mother's Suicide
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (554 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807044865 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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A profound meditation on illness, healing, and the luminous chaos of the human heart. This book is a revelation—you can feel it in your body.”—Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City. It all circles around a handful of days, where everything happens—birth, death, truth, transformation. If you’ve ever watched someone you love unravel, or if you’ve asked the echoing ‘why?’ of suicide, you’ll find home in these pages.”—Ariel Gore, author of The End of Eve“The Art of Misdiagnosis broke my heart and then knit it back together. I was both moved and enlightened by this unflinching memoir.”—Linda Gray Sexton, best-selling author of Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton and Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide“Gayle Brandeis is one of the smartest and most compassionate voices in nonf
Written by a gifted stylist, The Art of Misdiagnosis delves into the tangled mysteries of disease, mental illness, and suicide and comes out the other side with grace.. Several days later, her body was found: she had hanged herself in the utility closet of a Pasadena parking garage.In this searing, formally inventive memoir, Gayle describes the dissonance between being a new mother, a sweet-smelling infant at her chest, and a grieving daughter trying to piece together what happened, who her mother was, and all she had and hadn&r
Gayle Brandeis is the author of Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write and the novels The Book of Dead Birds, which won the Bellwether Prize for Fiction of Social Engagement (judged by Toni Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston, and contest founder Barbara Kingsolver), Self Storage, Delta Girls, and My Life with the Lincolns, which re