While you were out, an intimate family portrait of mental illness in an era of silence, Meg Kissinger
Type
Label
While you were out, an intimate family portrait of mental illness in an era of silence, Meg Kissinger
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [301]-303)
resource.biographical
collective biography
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
While you were out
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1340646830
Responsibility statement
Meg Kissinger
Sub title
an intimate family portrait of mental illness in an era of silence
Summary
Growing up in the 1960s in the suburbs of Chicago, Meg Kissinger<U+2019>s family seemed to live a charmed life. With eight kids and two loving parents, the Kissingers radiated a warm, boisterous energy. But behind closed doors, a harsher reality was unfolding<U+2014>a heavily medicated mother hospitalized for anxiety and depression, a manic father prone to violence, and children in the throes of bipolar disorder and depression, two of whom would take their own lives. While You Were Out begins as the personal story of one family<U+2019>s struggles and then opens outward, as Kissinger details how childhood tragedy catalyzed a journalism career focused on exposing our country<U+2019>s flawed mental health care
Table Of Contents
Part I. Loving what is mortal -- The tiger pit -- Get out of jail free -- Secret hiding places -- Dangerous tricks -- It's all in her head -- While you were out: grandma died -- We all have to go sometime -- A hard molt -- Love and a hate crime -- Arrivals and departures -- The prodigal son returns -- Collecting treasures for heaven -- Part II. Against my bones -- Swimming back to Devil's island -- Building character -- Holmer in the gloamin' -- Be wounded by the stories you tell -- Part III. Letting go -- Life sparks through stubble -- Pillars of light
Target audience
adult