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Living in the Long Shadow Surviving a Legacy of Mental Illness
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ePUB
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
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Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
29.09.2026
Verlag
Simon + Schuster LLCSeitenzahl
312 (Printausgabe)
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798896361596
This poignant and compelling memoir, set in '60s-'70s Los Angeles, traces a daughter's experience of her mother's schizophrenia and its lasting fallout before she ultimately reckons with her mother's suicide and trusts in enduring love.
When Suzanne Sherman is four, her musically gifted mother is struck by sudden-onset schizophrenia, altering the course of Suzanne's childhood.
Told in dual timelinesthe years of her childhood and the two weeks following her mother's suicide when Suzanne is eighteenLiving in the Long Shadow traces Suzanne's coming of age in the shadow of mental illness as her family struggles with its far-reaching effects. As a teenager, Suzanne makes the difficult decision to move out of her mother's house and go to live with her father and stepfamilya challenging but ultimately positive choice. While her mother manages life on medication, Suzanne forms a friendship with her, sharing values, confidences, and a love of music and poetry. But a year after leaving Los Angeles for college, she learns that her mother, who was unable to live with the medication or without it, has taken her own life.
Ten years later, an extraordinary sign comes from her motherone that affirms the enduring presence of her love for Suzanneand her grief begins to make room for acceptance.
When Suzanne Sherman is four, her musically gifted mother is struck by sudden-onset schizophrenia, altering the course of Suzanne's childhood.
Told in dual timelinesthe years of her childhood and the two weeks following her mother's suicide when Suzanne is eighteenLiving in the Long Shadow traces Suzanne's coming of age in the shadow of mental illness as her family struggles with its far-reaching effects. As a teenager, Suzanne makes the difficult decision to move out of her mother's house and go to live with her father and stepfamilya challenging but ultimately positive choice. While her mother manages life on medication, Suzanne forms a friendship with her, sharing values, confidences, and a love of music and poetry. But a year after leaving Los Angeles for college, she learns that her mother, who was unable to live with the medication or without it, has taken her own life.
Ten years later, an extraordinary sign comes from her motherone that affirms the enduring presence of her love for Suzanneand her grief begins to make room for acceptance.
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