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888 reviews for:
While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
Meg Kissinger
4.28 AVERAGE
888 reviews for:
While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
Meg Kissinger
4.28 AVERAGE
reflective
medium-paced
This was not enjoyable to me. So depressing and hard to listen to, while i know it was their life and story, just wasn’t my cup
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Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Suicide
dark
emotional
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Thank you to Netgalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review!
Moving and intimate, this family-focused memoir of mental illness, generational trauma, and love had me finding every excuse to put on headphones and keep listening. Kissinger's work as a journalist, her ability to look with love and unflinching honesty at her own history made this book unforgettable. It also put into perspective for me both how far we have come in terms of mental health and reproductive rights in the past sixty years and how far we still have to go.
This book was heavy and readers should be aware of the content warnings, but the topics were handled so deftly and with such maturity that the discussion could often feel cathartic and healing for me, rather than triggering. Content warnings for discussions of substance abuse, child abuse and neglect, suicide, antisemitism, stalking, harassment. and forced institutionalization.
Moving and intimate, this family-focused memoir of mental illness, generational trauma, and love had me finding every excuse to put on headphones and keep listening. Kissinger's work as a journalist, her ability to look with love and unflinching honesty at her own history made this book unforgettable. It also put into perspective for me both how far we have come in terms of mental health and reproductive rights in the past sixty years and how far we still have to go.
This book was heavy and readers should be aware of the content warnings, but the topics were handled so deftly and with such maturity that the discussion could often feel cathartic and healing for me, rather than triggering. Content warnings for discussions of substance abuse, child abuse and neglect, suicide, antisemitism, stalking, harassment. and forced institutionalization.
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced