Sarah Vaughan Is Not My Mother
Subtitle: A Memoir of Madness
Publisher: Awa Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781877551802
Subjects: Autobiography and memoir
Description: "In the tradition of The Bell Jar and Girl, Interrupted comes a stunning autobiographical account from a 29-year-old New Zealander. A creative, intelligent young woman with a loving family, in her first year of university MaryJane starts to experience nightmarish delusions and hallucinations. Her journey into madness has begun. She drops out, turns to drugs, and spends eight years in and out of psych wards, police cells, drug hangouts and on the streets. In this book she vividly describes what it is like to live with voices in your head, to lose your freedom, and to despair of ever being well again"--Publisher information.