“A fascinating look at the disease uld 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. 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. Now she was labeled violent, psychotic, a flight risk.
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. 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. Susannah Cahalan is the New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, a memoir about her struggle with a rare autoimmune. Brain on Fire (10th Anniversary Edition): My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan 4.4 (238) Paperback 17.99 Paperback 17.99 eBook 12.99 Audiobook 0.00 Audio CD 39. “A fascinating look at the disease uld 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.An anniversary edition of the 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-with a new note to readers by the author. One day in 2009, twenty-four-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. Now she was labeled violent, psychotic, a flight risk. During what she calls her month of madness, she hallucinated bedbugs, became paranoid that her boyfriend was cheating on her, had intense mood swings, and had multiple seizures, among other. 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. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (Free Press, 2012), Susannah Cahalans memoir about her experience as a young journalist struggling with the diagnosis of.
An award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller-and inspiration for the major motion picture starring Chloë Grace Moretz-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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