While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence by Meg Kissinger

While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

Meg Kissinger

320 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction health memoir emotional informative sad medium-paced
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From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illness, as well as an incisive exploration of the systems that failed them and a testament to the love that sustained them.Growing up in the 1960s in the...

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Moods

emotional 90%
informative 69%
reflective 69%
sad 66%
dark 54%
challenging 40%
hopeful 29%
inspiring 27%
funny 15%
tense 10%
mysterious 1%

Pace

medium 76%
fast 13%
slow 10%

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