A spellbinding account of one woman’s experience living through family trauma and a thoughtful attempt to reckon with the past. Kissinger asks tough questions and freely admits her own regrets while pointing out systemic problems with no easy answers.
Searing ... Kissinger brings passion and immediacy to the subject, sharing her own story and those of her sources with bracing frankness ... As both a candid family portrait and a polemic against institutional neglect of people with mental illness, this delivers.
Kissinger identifies endemic problems in dealing with mentally ill individuals, including housing, social support, medical treatment, and hospitalization ... An impassioned argument for reform in caring for the afflicted.
