A review by patriciapierry
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

3.0

I thought this was an extremely interesting and enlightening look at Cahalan's situation and the experience of other sufferers of this disease. I love "cool facts about the brain," as my mom would say, and so of course I would enjoy this. I was bothered by the lack of a description of how she's doing at the end; obviously, we know from the beginning that she's recovered--since she's writing this book--but she never really gave us a clear sense of "I'm better in X ways, but not in Y" or even of where she is in her recovery process. Otherwise, though, fascinating read.