Collected Schizophrenias: Essays discovering what the most important

discovering what the most important decision in your life is (it's not your job

Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father

Chicago Tribune

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And it's that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope--the haunted house

Collected Schizophrenias: Essays discovering what the most importantPowerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting Award An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esm Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the "collected schizophrenias" but to