The Art of Misdiagnosis: Surviving My Mother's Suicide
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (685 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06W9N6G1R |
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| Number of Pages | : | 346 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Her essays, poems, and short fiction have been widely published and have received numerous honors, including a Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Award, the QPB/Story Magazine Short Story Award, and a Notable mention in The Best American Essays 2016. . Gayle Brandeis is the author of Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write and th
Truthfully, I am in awe.”—Caroline Leavitt, New York Times best-selling author of Is This Tomorrow and Pictures of You“Riveting, insightful, and beautifully written, this memoir kept me up all night.”—Christina Baker Kline, New York Times best-selling author of Orphan Train“The Art of Misdiagnosis is Gayle Brandeis’s masterpiece, and it reads with the urgency of a literary thriller. It is one of the most moving and thought-provoking memoirs I have ever read.”—Alice Eve Cohen, award
Slowly and expertly, The Art of Misdiagnosis peels back the complicated layers of deception and complicity, of physical and mental illness in Gayle’s family, to show how she and her mother had misdiagnosed one another.Gayle’s memoir is both a compelling search into the mystery of one’s own family and a life-affirming story of the relief discovered through breaking familial and personal silences. 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’t understood about her.Around the time of her suicide, Gayle’s mother had been working on a documentary about the rare illnesses she thought r