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Hurry Down Sunshine | 
 enlarge | Author: Michael Greenberg
Publisher: Other Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  68 reviews
Sales Rank: 672
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.5 x 1
ISBN: 1590511913
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.1968950092
EAN: 9781590511916
ASIN: 1590511913
Publication Date: September 9, 2008
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Amazon Best of the Month, September 2008: Michael Greenberg's spare, unflinching memoir begins with a bang: "On July 5, 1996, my daughter was struck mad." Hurry Down Sunshine chronicles the summer when fifteen-year-old Sally experienced her first full-blown manic episodean event that in a "single stroke" changed her identity and, by extension, that of her entire family. Simply told and beautifully written, Greenberg's memoir shines a stark light on mental illness, painting a vivid picture of a brain and body under siegemania as a separate living thing squatting within the patient. As a writer who lives "so much in his head," Greenberg is particularly anguished by his daughter's fractured psyche, and his honesty about being both sickened and fascinated by his daughter's condition is breathtaking: "During the worst moments, I think of her as my diseasethe disease I must bear...I am intoxicated with Sally's madness in both senses of the word: inebriated and poisoned." So desperate is he to understand her, that he relentlessly researches mental illness (the book is peppered with fascinating insights into drug therapy and anecdotes about writers who struggled with madness), and even goes so far as to sample a full dose of his daughter's medication. Startling, heart-wrenching, and yet unwaveringly unsentimental, Hurry Down Sunshine is an unforgettable story of a young girl's descent into madness, told through the eyes of a harried and helpless father trying desperately to bring her back. --Daphne Durham
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 Interesting Story December 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an interesting story about Michael Greenberg's daughter, Sally, who one day out of the blue just goes crazy. It tells how he and his wife, Pat, his ex-wife and his family and friends dealt with it. Primarily it is about Sally and her story. I found it interesting how different people dealt with this. I got into this book right away and enjoyed it. I recommend it and think you will enjoy it too. Thanks for sharing, Mr. Greenberg.
Wonderfully Written November 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Hurry Down Sunshine", written by a father about his 15-year-old daughter's first bought with mania, is as much about his and his family's reactions to her struggle as it is about the condition itself. Told in a prosaic style, Michael Greenberg deals with the subject with utter honesty and absolute authenticity, sharing his confusion and pain as a father side-by-side with the anguish of someone whose darkest nightmare is coming true. Event though Greenberg is caring for his mentally ill brother, who is going through some difficulties of his own around this time, he was still completely unprepared for his daughter's illness.
Greenberg's writing is superb; although dealing with a poignant subject, the book never falls into self-pity, self-justification or sentimentality. The work leaves the reader with a great deal to think about as well as a hunger for more from Michael Greenberg.
I would recommend this to any reader interested in understanding what mental illness extracts from a caregiver or those close to the sufferer.
This was a great book! November 23, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was a great book! I highly recommend it! Have fun!
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Haunting and Hopeful November 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Michael Greenberg's memoir of the summer of 1996 describes the months that his daughter was dealing with manic psychosis and was diagnosed as "bipolar 1." It's much more a book about his reactions to her illness, as well as that of his brother and negotiating between his wife and his ex-wife than it is about Sally's actual illness, but it's the book that he's most qualified to write; he wasn't in her head, so he can't say exactly what she was feeling at the time. It's a unique experience that's well-worth the read, and it's a very quick book that's hard to put down.
prophet or psychotic? October 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I don't usually read memoirs, but this was an absolutely fascinating read. Within the narrative of his daughter's psychotic break, Greenberg delves into the mysteries of madness, pondering famous--and genious--historic figures who wavered between creative brilliance and complete psychosis.
This book gave me an intimate view of what it is like during a manic episode, and shows the thin line between sane and insane. Almost as stunning as the daughter's "crack up" is Greenberg's own struggle to cope with his daughter's madness, desperately trying to believe that is was drugs, which would wear off, instead of and organic disease in her brain.
Greenberg's prose flows smoothly. This book was difficult to put down. It will give me much food for thought for a long time.
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