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    <body><![CDATA[This book is lovingly written and is an inspiring portrait of a family struggling to manage living with schizophrenia. I fell in love with each and every one of the main characters and deeply admire their fighting spirit and their ability to survive and come out the other side relatively intact. Thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33308991">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Both poignant and matter-of-fact simultaneously, Flynn's memoir of her childhood spent coping with her mother's schizophrenia is well-written.  Her story examines how children know something is wrong and how they cope, despite not having the intellectual knowledge of adults with regard to mental ill...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44870496">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A beautifully written memoir (full disclosure: by a client of my former boss) about a daughter's relationship with her paranoid schizophrenic mother. Not only a great story, well told, but also provides, particularly in the last portion of the book, a little window of insight for those of us who hav...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68999541">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just finished this book.  I always like nonfiction written in first person.  Laura takes you inside the mind of mental illness.  Then she shows you how it reaches out to others. What really struck me is the fear the she too will inherit this disease.  I will be joining her at a writing seminar on Ap...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45940727">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was okay.  I do like my memoirs more tragic than a mom who hoards, gets violent, sees/hears things, makes terrible kids clothing.  I'm not saying that they author had it easy, but I personally require more drama when it comes to memoirs--that's why I loved Dumbfounded, The Glass Castle and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78817320">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If a parent's perception of the world is &quot;off&quot;, it carries over to the children.  Laura Flynn and her sisters created games to escape the fear that their mother inspired in them as she retreated from the world into her own haunted reality.  <br/><br/>As a child of a schizophrenic (father...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58963219">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was loaned to me by a friend, for reasons I haven't quite discerned. I've never read many memoirs, other than the comic variety. Recent scandals only have strengthened the idea that most memoirists are self-aggrandizing liars. <br/><br/>This really didn't seem that way. The book tells the sto...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33117711">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book over the weekend when I should have been grading papers or writing exams.  It proved to be a lovely distraction, if not a work of great literature.  The author's mother's story is compelling, though I often felt the author herself was trying a little too hard with her prose.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was not bad but could have been better. I guess I was expecting there to be more details about the mother and no so many details about daily life as a child? It did have some very interesting parts and I liked the fact that it was a true story.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book drew me into the world of Laura and her mother who has schizophrenia.  She like many relatives of people with schizophrenia, at first is captivated by her mother's imaginary world but then realizes as she grows older, that this world of hers, is scary.  <br/>Her mother was an intriguing w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13875889">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the Memoir of Laura Flynn.  She tells the story of her life growing up as the middle child of three sisters.  Their mother is suffering from schizophrenia and they spend a lifetime dealing with it.  This story is sad but uplifting and the relationships are extreme (to the good and the bad).]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an unforgettable memoir about growing up in the care of a schizophrenic mother. At times, I thought the author would have done well with a bit less detail, but the honesty of which she tells her story certainly made up for this. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A beautiful written and deeply touching book of  the impact of a mother's slide into<br/>schizophrenia and its effect on her family. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first two days the book was in my house, I lost it to my wife, who read it straight threw. Then I couldn't put it down. For such a subject that can be so heavy, the writing is very easy to sink into and enjoy. I also grew up with a parent who was mentally ill for many years. This book found an a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15914669">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's no Glass Castle but it is a troubling story of a mad mother and neglectful father in early 1960's San Francisco.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[there are no words - if you liked the glass castle you will like this book]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Real life Wally Lamb type story.]]></body>
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