Other authors: Susannah Cahalan

This is part of my Other Authors series, where I share dissociated voices written by a number of different novelists.

Today is a little bit different as I’m sharing my thoughts on Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, which is an autobiography, not a novel. I’m making the exception for Susannah Cahalan’s book because the writing is as poetic as any novel.

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness follows a very personal descent into madness. Susannah Cahalan goes from fully functioning adult to wakin...