![]() I adored getting to know the Powers family. And when we started correcting each other’s lapses in memory, my husband joked that we were made for each other.īut something tells me he has eyes only for his lovely wife, Honoree. ![]() Had I been? Yes! Do my redheaded daughters Irish dance? At least one does. His wife’s mother is from the County Mayo. He worked for the Chicago Tribune I live in the Windy City now.Īnd we’ve both been touched by mental illness. Louis Post-Dispatch for a time that’s where I grew up. Though different years and entirely different campuses. Immediately I was taken with his charm and our similarities. ![]() He’s obviously not a mother, but a loving father of two adult sons who have battled schizophrenia. It’s suspected she died, fittingly, on Memorial Day. We were estranged at the time in fact, she had driven away many family members then, too. May is likely the month my mother took her last breath. When I started thinking about my author line-up for May, I knew I wanted to focus on motherhood, for obvious reasons, but also, I had personal reasons. I’m also a former child/adolescent psychiatric R.N., so to say I don’t care about ‘crazy’ people, would be wrong. Not just in my mother who died by suicide a few years back, but other family members as well. Perhaps I care a little too much. Mental illness runs in my family. Is that because I don’t care about crazy people? On the contrary. NO ONE CARES ABOUT CRAZY PEOPLE has been on my TBR pile, embarrassingly, for over a year. No doubt if everyone were to read this book, the world would change.” The New York Times Book Review says this of NO ONE CARES ABOUT CRAZY PEOPLE: People Magazine and Shelf Awareness have both called it the Best Book of the Year. …It’s a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year. Written by a New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer prize winning journalist, NO ONE CARES ABOUT CRAZY PEOPLE (Hachette hardcover, 2017 now available in paperback) is a finalist for the PEN/E. A moving and richly researched blend of history, memoir, and current affairs regarding mental health in America.
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