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TitleDetour: My Bipolar Road Trip in 4-DAuthorPublished 2002
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Status:Check Shelves SubjectBipolarCategoryBipolarTypeBiographyDescription
A finely wrought memoir of mental health, Detour takes a genre explored by Susanna Kaysen and Kay Redfield Jamison and propels it in a revelatory and rebellious new direction. With brave humor, Simon writes guilelessly about herself, her past, and her search for "a herd of her own." She explores that shifting gray area where illness and identity intersect and blur, with the eye of an insider and the heart and soul of a survivor. Accessible and unique, Detour not only opens an intimate window on the day-to-day condition of living with a mood disorder, it also speaks to our universally human struggle to become whole.
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BIPOLAR BIOGRAPHY