The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Wang, Esmé Weijun

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

Powerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting Award...
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Author: Esmé Weijun Wang
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Language: English
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The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Wang, Esmé Weijun

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

$27.34

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

$27.34
Author: Esmé Weijun Wang
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Powerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting Award

An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the "collected schizophrenias" but to those who wish to understand it as well. Opening with the journey toward her diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder, Wang discusses the medical community's own disagreement about labels and procedures for diagnosing those with mental illness, and then follows an arc that examines the manifestations of schizophrenia in her life. In essays that range from using fashion to present as high-functioning to the depths of a rare form of psychosis, and from the failures of the higher education system and the dangers of institutionalization to the complexity of compounding factors such as PTSD and Lyme disease, Wang's analytical eye, honed as a former lab researcher at Stanford, allows her to balance research with personal narrative. An essay collection of undeniable power, The Collected Schizophrenias dispels misconceptions and provides insight into a condition long misunderstood.

Author: Esmé Weijun Wang
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 02/05/2019
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781555978273


Review Citation(s):
BookPage 02/01/2019
Publishers Weekly 10/15/2018
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/15/2018 pg. 37
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2018
Booklist 02/15/2019 pg. 15
Shelf Awareness 12/03/2019

About the Author
Esmé Weijun Wang is the author of The Border of Paradise. She received the Whiting Award in 2018 and was named one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists of 2017. She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan and lives in San Francisco.

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