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A review by emmaliborski
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
informative
reflective
tense
fast-paced
5.0
A truly stellar memoir- dutifully reported and emotionally compelling. I'll be thinking about this one for a long time.
“The girl in the video is a reminder about how fragile our hold on sanity and health is and how much we are at the utter whim of our Brutus bodies, which will inevitably, on day, turn on us for good. I am a prisoner, as we all are. And with that realization comes an aching sense of vulnerability.”
(Changed from 4.25 stars to 5 stars after a few months of reflection because not only is this is a near perfect memoir, but I still think about it almost every day).
“The girl in the video is a reminder about how fragile our hold on sanity and health is and how much we are at the utter whim of our Brutus bodies, which will inevitably, on day, turn on us for good. I am a prisoner, as we all are. And with that realization comes an aching sense of vulnerability.”
(Changed from 4.25 stars to 5 stars after a few months of reflection because not only is this is a near perfect memoir, but I still think about it almost every day).