Rent Hurry Down Sunshine: A Father's Story of Love and Madness

Synopsis

A Time Best Book of the Year

Relating the extraordinary story of a family in crisis,Hurry Down Sunshine is amemoir of exceptional power. Unsentimental, nuanced, and deeply humane, it will become essential reading in the literature of affliction alongside classics such as Girl, Interrupted and An UnquietMind.

With remarkable candor and in vivid detail, Michael Greenberg recounts the summer when his fifteen-year-old daughter experiences a psychotic break and "was struck mad." Beginning with Sally's sudden, visionary crack-up on the streets of Greenwich Village, and continuing, among other places, in the out-of-time world of a Manhattan psychiatric ward during the city's most swelteringmonths, this is the tale of a family broken open, then painstakingly, movingly stitched together again.

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