Tag: mental illness

Title: Aquarium Author: David Vann Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press, March 2015 Summary/Review: David Vann is a master of family dysfunction. Hidden within his beautiful writing lurk some of the cruelest and manipulative characters you will ever meet. His newest novel, AQUARIUM, is no exception. This...

Title: Poppet Author: Mo Hayder Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press, May 2013 Summary/Review: A thriller set in and around a psychiatric hospital? Creepy cover? Sign me up! Mo Hayder has outdone herself with her newest Jack Caffery thriller, Poppet. Psychiatric nurse AJ LeGrande believes that...

Title: Still Alice Author: Lisa Genova Publisher: Gallery Books, 2009 Summary/Review: Alice Howland is a psychology professor at Harvard University with 3 grown children.  First, she can’t find her Blackberry, can’t quite remember names and blames it on stress.  But then one day while she’s...

Title: Chanel Bonfire Author: Wendy Lawless Publisher: Gallery Books, 2013 Summary/Review: Growing up with an alcoholic, narcissistic, and mentally ill mother was by no means easy for Wendy and her younger sister Robin. Keeping the severe dysfunction hidden behind closed doors was even harder....

Title: Defending Jacob Author: William Landay Publisher: Delacorte Press, 2012 Summary/Review: Andy Barber has been a well-respected assistant district attorney in Massachusetts for many years until his 14-year-old son Jacob is accused of killing former classmate Ben Rifkin. As the community presumes Jacob’s guilt...

Title: Wishful Drinking Author:  Carrie Fisher Publisher: Simon & Schuster, December 2008 Summary: Typically, the children of movie stars and celebrities grow up with an unusual lifestyle; one that only you or I could hardly begin to imagine. Carrie Fisher, daughter of Eddie Fisher and Debbie...

Title: Saving CeeCee Honeycutt Author:  Beth Hoffman Publisher: Pamela Dorman Books, January 2010 Summary: Twelve year old CeeCee Honeycut is struggling to find normalcy in her chaotic life. Her mother is suffering from a mental illness and her father stays away from home as much as possible. Ceecee is left...

Title: Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth Author: Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papademitriou Publisher: Bloomsbury, September 2009 Summary: Bertrand Russell, mathematician, philosopher, pacifist and lightning rod, was one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. This ambitious graphic biography focuses equally on his turbulent personal life and...

Title: Stitches Author: David Small Summary: David Small grew up in a cold house, with distant, nearly silent parents. He was born sickly – and as was par for the course at that time, his radiologist father gave him plenty of x-ray treatments to strengthen...

Title: Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities and Occasional Moments of Grace Author: Ayelet Waldman Publisher: Doubleday, May 2009 Summary: When her essay Motherlove was published, Ayelet Waldman revealed to the world that she loved her husband more than she loves her...