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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I have experienced this with my husband. It is a very realistic account of "the system". ( )Realistic and difficult to read. While I validate the importance of a parent's experience of their child's experience through mental illness, I would have rather read the story recounted by the daughter. I read this book in bits and pieces, perhaps a testament to the traumatic realism of the book. A father's memoir of the summer his daughter had a "crack-up," the gripping story describes her hospitalization, the ongoing treatment back to "normal," and how everyone's reacting and coping in different ways. The best part is the family history revealed through such a crisis, the writing is honest and unvarnished. An interesting recounting of a traumatic story through the eyes of a father. But as I finished it, I couldn't help but think that the most fascinating aspects the girl's struggle with a bipolar disorder likely occurred in the years following her diagnosis. I wish Greenberg had opted to pen a more streamlined version of the early struggles, then spent the second half of the book tracing his daughter's later challenges. I found this one hard to get into but found the subject very thought provoking and insightful no reviews | add a review
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(retrieved from Amazon Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:04:58 -0500)
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