num_pages: 300
description: An award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one womans struggle to recapture her identity.When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak she had no memory of how shed gotten there. Days earlier she had been on the threshold of a new adult life: at the beginning of her first serious relationship and a promising career at a major New York newspaper. Now she was labeled violent psychotic a flight risk. What happened?In a swift and breathtaking narrative Cahalan tells the astonishing true story of her descent into madness her familys inspiring faith in her and the lifesaving diagnosis that nearly didnt happen.
language: English
title: Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
publisher: Free Press