A review by lhgiang13
The Outsider: A Journey Into My Father's Struggle With Madness by Nathaniel Lachenmeyer

4.0

I read this book purposely after watching A beautiful mind (maybe a little too late?) The take-home messages were clear: we're passing by a perhaps bigger than we know (and care to know) population suffering from mental illness, without rightfully acknowledging that they are or used to be among us, with their own stories to be told. The best thought we could afford when we see a homeless talking to him/herself on the street might be "He/she is mad." Madness is a label and if we're satisfied with labelling people that way we explore and understand them no further