Susannah Cahalan is a news reporter at the New York Post whose award-winning work has also been featured in The New York Times. “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. story of her inexplicable descent into madness. 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. What was happening to her mind In this swift and breathtaking narrative, Susannah tells the astonishing true. 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. 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. : Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (9781451621389) by Cahalan, Susannah and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books. Here’s a brief summary of the book from Goodreads: 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.

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