{"product_id":"a-room-with-a-darker-view-chronicles-of-my-mother-and-schizophrenia-9781733957908","title":"A Room with a Darker View: Chronicles of My Mother and Schizophrenia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA daughter breaks the family silence about her mother's schizophrenia, reframing hospitalizations, paranoia, illness, and caregiving through a feminist lens.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClaire Phillips' elegantly written and unflinching memoir about her mother, an Oxford-trained lawyer diagnosed in mid-life with paranoid schizophrenia, challenges current conceptions about mental illness, relapse and recovery, as well as difficulties caring for an aging parent with a chronic disease. Told in fragments, the work also becomes a startling reflection on mother-daughter relationships during the evolution of 20th-century feminism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOnly with her mother's final relapse at age 73 did the author begin to tell this story, first in Black Clock magazine, an essay for which she received a Pushcart nomination and notable mention in The Best American Essays 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Doppelhouse Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/18\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781733957908\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d","brand":"Claire Phillips","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36667934703772,"sku":"9781733957908","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_1c40741b-6a60-4264-923f-57b36bed0c53.jpg?v=1603916206","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-room-with-a-darker-view-chronicles-of-my-mother-and-schizophrenia-9781733957908","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}