num_pages: 320
description: A heart-wrenching yet hopeful memoir of a young marriage that is redefined by mental illness and affirms the power of love.Mark and Giulias life together began as a storybook romance. They fell in love at eighteen married at twenty-four and were living their dream life in San Francisco. When Giulia was twenty-seven she suffered a terrifying and unexpected psychotic break that landed her in the psych ward for nearly a month. One day she was vibrant and well-adjusted; the next she was delusional and suicidal convinced that her loved ones were not safe.Eventually Giulia fully recovered and the couple had a son. But soon after Jonas was born Giulia had another breakdown and then a third a few years after that. Pushed to the edge of the abyss everything the couple had once taken for granted was upended.A story of the fragility of the mind and the tenacity of the human spirit My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward is above all a love story that raises profound questions: How do we care for the people we love? What and who do we live for? Breathtaking in its candor radiant with compassion and written with dazzling lyricism Lukachs is an intensely personal odyssey through the harrowing years of his wifes mental illness anchored by an abiding devotion to family that will affirm readers faith in the power of love.
language: English
title: My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward
publisher: Harper Wave