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

emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

Once I heard that the author was a journalist I knew this would be a good book. She begins the book focusing on her family’s various struggles with mental health and the grief that comes with it. The latter part of the book talks more about her career as an investigative journalist on mental healthcare. She weaves the two together really well.

I have read a lot of memoirs. What makes a book a good memoir, in my opinion, is connecting the main story and issues to a larger system or cause. This book does that super well, it’s definitely top 10 of the memoirs I’ve read for that reason. I also loved her accent in the audiobook. 
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