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

5.0

While You Were Out looks in depth at author, and journalist, Meg Kissinger’s life growing up in a household surrounded by mental health issues. I wouldn’t necessarily say I was triggered by what I read, but I definitely related to a lot of it. I lost my dad to suicide in 94 at the age of 8. Suicide has far more awareness, and compassion, now than it did then and it broke my mother who already struggled with her own mental health. I appreciated that Meg narrated the audiobook without a lot of overt emotion because it would have broke me listening to it if she had. While You Weree Oht is gritty, deep and painfully beautiful.

Thank you Celadon Books for gifting me an ARC.