First published 2025
Susannah Cahalan awakens from a medically-induced coma to find her brain betraying her. Trapped in a surreal landscape of hallucinations and fragmented memories, she must piece together the truth of her recent psychosis. As the mystery deepens, Susannah's family and doctors race against time to uncover the cause before her mind slips away for good. In this gripping descent into madness, Cahalan confronts her own fractured identity and the blurred lines between sanity and insanity.
Genres: medical, mental-illness, memoir, psychological-thriller
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: medical-mystery, unreliable-narrator
239 pages · Paperback · Make Community, LLC
Content warnings: medical-trauma, mental-illness