A Book About Mental Illness
Read More Reading Challenge 2021
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Transcendent Kingdom
by Yaa Gyasi

A follow-up to the best-selling Homegoing finds a sixth-year PhD candidate grappling with the childhood faith of the evangelical church in which she was raised while researching the science behind the suffering that has devastated her Ghanaian immigrant family. Read the ebook or listen to the audio version on Overdrive. 
(Don't) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation About Mental Health
by Kelly Jensen

Essays, lists, poems and art explore the ways 33 best-selling authors and celebrity contributors have coped with and thrived in the face of mental illness, in an anthology that includes entries by Kristen Bell, Nancy Kerrigan and Libba Bray. Read the ebook on Hoopla or Overdrive.
Somebody I Used to Know: A Memoir
by Wendy Mitchell

A memoir by a former British National Heath Service employee and single parent describes her battles with early onset Alzheimer's, the management techniques she has developed to maintain her independence and her efforts to make sense of her shifting world.
Freshwater
by Akwaeke Emezi

Traces the experiences of a deeply troubled young woman who alarms her devout Nigerian family as she succumbs to multiple personality disorder and begins to display increasingly dark and dangerous traits in accordance with her fractured personalities. A first novel. The ebook is available through Overdrive and Hoopla. You can also listen to the audiobook with Hoopla.
Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression
by Teresa Wong

In this intimate and moving graphic memoir, Teresa Wong writes and illustrates the story of her struggle with postpartum depression in the form of a letter to her daughter Scarlet. Equal parts heartbreaking and funny, Dear Scarlet perfectly captures the quiet desperation of those suffering from PPD and the profound feelings of inadequacy and loss.
The Mission House
by Carys Davies

Taking refuge in a mission house in a remote hill town in India, an Englishman fleeing the dark undercurrents of contemporary life bonds with a Padre’s daughter against a backdrop of escalating religious tensions.
No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
by Ron Powers

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling co-author of True Compass offers a fast-paced, carefully researched narrative of the social history of mental illness, focusing specifically on schizophrenia, the taboos that compromise mental health care and the way the disease has devastated his own family. 
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