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A Mother's Story of a Bipolar Son
By Charlotte Pierce-Baker
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
256 Pages, 6 x 9
Formats: Cloth, PDF, EPUB, Mobipocket, Trade Paper
Cloth, $24.95 (US $24.95) (CA $27.95)
ISBN 9781613741085
Rights: WOR
Chicago Review Press (Jun 2012)
Lawrence Hill Books
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The heartrending story of mental illness’s surprise attack
Reviews
"[An] eloquent dialogue of mother and son, poetry and prose, sickness and healing, fury and acceptance, fear and hope, life and death, and, foremost, author and reader." —Cathy N. Davidson, author of Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn
"With brilliance and tremendous courage, Charlotte Pierce-Baker travels where no other autobiography about mental illness has gone before in terms of discussing issues of a family shattered by the bipolar disorder of their son: race, fear, love, loss and healing. This Fragile Life is a testament to a family forced to cope with mental illness, a unique journey and an emotional triumph. Every family affected with mental illness should read [this] magnificent book." —Andy Behrman, author of Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania
"Vigorously written, brave, and candid . . . a deeply moving, instructive account of embattled lives and loves striving for order in the face of a heartbreaking mental illness." —Arnold Rampersad, author of Ralph Ellison and The Life of Langston Hughes
Author Biography
Charlotte Pierce-Baker is a professor of women's studies, gender studies, and English at Vanderbilt University and the author of Surviving the Silence. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.