A review by caresays
January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her by Michael Schofield

3.0

I don't know what to really say about this book. A lot of it made me intensely uncomfortable because Schofield was extremely candid. However, there is that part of me that is suspicious of overt honesty in these things. I don't doubt that parts of this were exaggerated. What I do know is that he is parenting a severely mentally-ill child. That, in fact, they may have two mentally-ill children. That is not something I would wish on anyone. Schofield is clearly also super fucked up from this whole situation, and the book is pretty narcissistic, but. He's doing the best he can, I guess, so. I hope Jani is happy and healthy, and I hope Schofield and his family are well.