Blue Genes: A Memoir of Loss and Survival, (Paperback)

from wwtct

One of the most unemotional memoirs I have ever read. It's an interesting history of a family, but I have a really hard time comprehending that this was really his life, that it was his mother and brother he's discussing. He says, when finding out about his brother's suicide, "I scream and throw ...

from earthforms

One of the most unemotional memoirs I have ever read. It's an interesting history of a family, but I have a really hard time comprehending that this was really his life, that it was his mother and brother he's discussing. He says, when finding out about his brother's suicide, "I scream and throw ...

from 24girl

Late one night Christopher (Kit) Lukas received a phone call with news that his brother, the gifted journalist J. Anthony Lukas, had committed suicide. Tragically their mother also committed suicide when they were young boys. Kit and his brother were never told how she died and no one spoke of th...

from lpmejia

The story of Christopher Lukas and his brother, award-winning journalist J. Anthony Lukas, is a chronicle of mental health medicine's evolution in the 20th century. Their family is struck again and again by bipolar disorder, a disease not yet understood or properly treated until late in the centu...

from EnriqueFreeque

Stephen King once wrote that suicide "slithers like a snake off the tongue." Say the word aloud and hear its venomous hiss. In his 1938 masterwork on the subject, "Man Against Himself," Karl Menninger spoke of suicide's stigma in polite society, "So great is the taboo on suicide that some people ...