A MUST READ!! TRUE STORY!!
Pros:
A deep look inside the mind of someone who is mentally ill.
Cons:
I don't see any cons in this book.
The Bottom Line:
Those who suffer from mental illness are often judged. This book brings to light that it is like any other disease. Beyond our control. Hopefully people will be more understanding.
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Author's Review
This book is a must read for anyone who suffers from or knows someone who suffers from mental illness. The author, Michael Greenberg has a 15 year old daughter named Sally. All of the sudden at the age of 15 Sally is "struck mad". This book is so well written, you not only feel and see things from the father's perspective but, you can feel what Sally must be going through in her own mind.How terrifying it must have been for her and those around her. She ends up being put into a mental institution but, not before going through a lot of red tape and uncaring people. I will forever be changed by this book!Below is what is written on the inside jacket cover:"Hurry Down Sunshine" tells the story of the extraordinary summer when at the age of fifteen, Michael Greenberg's daughter was struck mad. It begins with Sally's sudden visionary crack up on the streets of Greenwich Village, and continues, among other places, in the out of time world of Manhattan psychiatric ward during the city's most sweltering months. "I feel like I am traveling and traveling with no where to go back to." Sally says in a bursts of lucidity while hurtling away toward some place her father could not dream of or imagine."Hurry Down Sunshine" is the chronicle of that journey, and its effect on Sally and those closest to her - her mother and stepmother, her brother and grandmother, and, not least of all, the author himself.
