The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

The Noonday Demon is a groundbreaking masterpiece that delves into the complexities of depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms.

Drawing on the author's own struggles with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, doctors, and scientists, this book reveals the subtle complexities and sheer agony of depression, as well as the reasons for hope.

With uncommon humanity, candor, wit, and erudition, award-winning author Andrew Solomon takes readers on a journey of incomparable range and resonance into the most pervasive of family secrets.

This definitive book is open-minded, critically informed, and poetic at the same time, making it an essential read for anyone seeking to understand mental illness and the human condition.