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A Room with a Darker View Chronicles of My Mother and Schizophrenia

by [Phillips, Claire]

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A daughter breaks the family silence about her mother's schizophrenia, reframing hospitalizations, paranoia, illness, and caregiving through a feminist lens.

Claire Phillips' elegantly written and unflinching memoir about her mother, an Oxford-trained lawyer diagnosed in mid-life with paranoid schizophrenia, challenges current conceptions about mental illness, relapse and recovery, as well as difficulties caring for an aging parent with a chronic disease. Told in fragments, the work also becomes a startling reflection on the evolution of feminism as seen through mother-daughter relationships.

Only with her mother's final relapse at age 73 did the author begin to tell this story, first in Black Clock magazine, an essay for which she received a Pushcart nomination and notable mention in The Best American Essays 2015.

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  • DoppelHouse Press Brand
  • Aug 18, 2020 Pub Date:
  • 9781733957908 ISBN-13:
  • 1733957901 ISBN-10:
  • 272.0 pages Paperback
  • English Language
  • 7.75 in * 0.75 in * 5 in Dimensions:
  • 1 lb Weight: