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This book recounts the lonely, harrowing life of Sylvia Frumkin who is diagnosed with schizophrenia. Sheehan followed Frumkin for two-and-a-half years, much of which was spent inside a mental hospital, Creedmoor Psychiatric Center , in Queens.
Wang is the author of the 2013 novel The Border of Paradise, [3] a multi-generational family story of immigrants dealing with mental illness. Talking to The Paris Review, she spoke about using her experience with mental illness in her fiction: "I wrote The Border of Paradise with the intent of writing about psychosis, hallucinations, et cetera, in a very visceral way that I hadn’t seen before."
Calvin won the 2016 Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature. [1]Publishers Weekly called it "(f)unny, intellectual, and entertaining" and "a sensitive yet irreverent adventure about a serious subject", and noted the possibility that Susie's participation in Calvin's quest may be another hallucination. [2]
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family is a 2020 non-fiction book by Robert Kolker.The book is an account of the Galvin family of Colorado Springs, Colorado, a mid 20th-century American family with twelve children (ten boys and two girls), six of whom were diagnosed with schizophrenia (notably all boys).
When straight-A student Jacob (Antoine L’Ecuyer) starts hearing voices and howling wolves in his head, he blames it on a bad trip. However, he and his family are quickly forced to accept a ...
Schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, and suicide are main topics. [31] Turtles All The Way Down, 2018 novel by John Green, which features a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts. [32] Everything Here Is Beautiful, [33] 2018 novel by Mira T. Lee. An immigrant story, and a young woman's quest to find ...
Challenger Deep is a 2015 young adult novel by Neal Shusterman about a teenager's onset of schizophrenia.The story was based on his own son. [1] It won the 2015 National Book Award for Young People's Literature [2] and was placed on "Best of the Year" lists by Publishers Weekly, the New York Public Library, and the American Library Association.
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