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Cho Catherine - Inferno A Memoir Of Motherhood And Madness - Paperback
Cho Catherine - Inferno A Memoir Of Motherhood And Madness - Paperback
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Description: A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Inferno is a disturbing and masterfully told memoir but it's also an important one that pushes back against powerful taboos The New York Times Book Review Explosive Good Morning America When Catherine Cho and her husband set off from London to introduce their newborn son to family scattered across the United States she could not have imagined what lay in store. Before the trip's end she develops psychosis a complete break from reality which causes her to lose all sense of time and place including what is real and not real. In desperation her husband admits her to a nearby psychiatric hospital where she begins the hard work of rebuilding her identity. In this unwaveringly honest insightful and often shocking memoir Catherine reconstructs her sense of self starting with her childhood as the daughter of Korean immigrants moving through a traumatic past relationship and on to the early years of her courtship with and marriage to her husband James. She masterfully interweaves these parts of her past with a vivid immediate recounting of the days she spent in the ward. The result is a powerful exploration of psychosis and motherhood at once intensely personal yet holding within it a universal experience of how we love live and understand ourselves in relation to each other.
Title: Inferno A Memoir Of Motherhood And Madness
Author(s): Cho Catherine
Publisher: Henry Holt And Co.
Barcode: 9781250798282
Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/29/2022
Category: Pregnancy, Birth & Baby Care
Description: A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Inferno is a disturbing and masterfully told memoir but it's also an important one that pushes back against powerful taboos The New York Times Book Review Explosive Good Morning America When Catherine Cho and her husband set off from London to introduce their newborn son to family scattered across the United States she could not have imagined what lay in store. Before the trip's end she develops psychosis a complete break from reality which causes her to lose all sense of time and place including what is real and not real. In desperation her husband admits her to a nearby psychiatric hospital where she begins the hard work of rebuilding her identity. In this unwaveringly honest insightful and often shocking memoir Catherine reconstructs her sense of self starting with her childhood as the daughter of Korean immigrants moving through a traumatic past relationship and on to the early years of her courtship with and marriage to her husband James. She masterfully interweaves these parts of her past with a vivid immediate recounting of the days she spent in the ward. The result is a powerful exploration of psychosis and motherhood at once intensely personal yet holding within it a universal experience of how we love live and understand ourselves in relation to each other.
Title: Inferno A Memoir Of Motherhood And Madness
Author(s): Cho Catherine
Publisher: Henry Holt And Co.
Barcode: 9781250798282
Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/29/2022
Category: Pregnancy, Birth & Baby Care
