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'A fast-paced and well-researched trek through a medical mystery to a hard-won recovery.' - Publishers Weekly
'A valiant attempt to recount a mostly forgotten experience, though the many questions that remain may prove frustrating to some readers.' - Kirkus Reviews
'Cahalan's doctors now think that this disease may explain instances of presumed demonic possession throughout history. Meanwhile, herself again, Cahalan nervily reports this extraordinary experience.' - Library Journal
'A valiant attempt to recount a mostly forgotten experience, though the many questions that remain may prove frustrating to some readers.' - Kirkus Reviews
'Cahalan's doctors now think that this disease may explain instances of presumed demonic possession throughout history. Meanwhile, herself again, Cahalan nervily reports this extraordinary experience.' - Library Journal
- Rating 156,831 Ratings An award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one woman’s struggle to recapture her identity.
- Reading Group Guide 1. A quote from the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche appears at both the beginning and end of Cahalan’s memoir: “The. Evaluate and discuss the style and genre of Brain on Fire. Cahalan describes the book as a memoir, but she also says. In the author’s note, Cahalan says.
- Her 2012 memoir, Brain on Fire has sold over a million copies and was made into a Netflix original movie. Her second book, The Great Pretender, made an array of “Best-Of” lists and was shortlisted for the 2020 Royal Society’s Science Book Award.
- Susannah’s astonishing memoir chronicles the swift path of her illness and the lucky, last-minute intervention led by one of the few doctors capable of saving her life. As weeks ticked by and Susannah moved inexplicably from violence to catatonia, $1 million worth of blood tests and brain.
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Pieces together the story of her “lost month” to write an unforgettable memoir about memory and identity, faith and love. It is an important, profoundly compelling tale of survival and perseverance that is destined to become a classic. If you liked Brain on Fire, then you should try Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety by Daniel Smith.
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Brain On Fire Memoirs
An award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one woman’s struggle to recapture her identity.
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When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak, she had no memory of how she’d gotten there. Days earlier, she had been on the threshold of a new, adult life: at the beginning of her first serious relationship and a promising career at a major New York newspaper. Now she was labeled violent, psychotic, a flight risk. What happened?
In a swift and breathtaking narrative, Susannah tells the astonishing true story of her descent into madness, her family’s inspiring faith in her, and the lifesaving diagnosis that nearly didn’t happen. “A fascinating look at the disease that…could have cost this vibrant, vital young woman her life” (People), Brain on Fire is an unforgettable exploration of memory and identity, faith and love, and a profoundly compelling tale of survival and perseverance that is destined to become a classic.