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Brain On Fire: My Month of Madness
by Susannah Cahalan
Absolutely loved this book much more than I expected to! I haven’t read a memoir since Educated and that fell very flat for me so to pick this up took the encouragement of “university requirement” for a book report in my STSE graduate class. I enjoy medical reads as well so that helped, given that I read The Brain That Changes Itself and some others, this focus on a rare autoimmune disease through the eyes of a survivor really made an impact on me as a reader.
Something I did not expect was that the author explicitly calls out her privileges and for that it earns 5 stars from me (yet another stark contrast to the privileges the author of Educated never admits) because she genuinely conveys concern for the people who don’t have access to the high quality care she did. It humbled her (plus she is an active advocate for the disease) and I will definitely be recommending this book to my friends or at the very least I feel that I have learned something that I can carry with me to educate others about.
Something I did not expect was that the author explicitly calls out her privileges and for that it earns 5 stars from me (yet another stark contrast to the privileges the author of Educated never admits) because she genuinely conveys concern for the people who don’t have access to the high quality care she did. It humbled her (plus she is an active advocate for the disease) and I will definitely be recommending this book to my friends or at the very least I feel that I have learned something that I can carry with me to educate others about.