A Really Good Day
How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage and My Life
$22.50
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
2 May 2019
Summary
‘Ayelet Waldman is fearless’ Rebecca Solnit
‘Relentlessly honest and surprisingly funny’ *Washington Post*
‘Genuinely brave and human’ *New York Times*
*‘Wildly brilliant’ *Elle*
The true story of how a renowned writer’s struggle with mood storms led her to try a remedy as drastic as it is forbidden: microdoses of LSD. Her fascinating journey provides a window into one family and the comple…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472152893 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472152891 |
| Author: | Ayelet Waldman |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Corsair |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 2 May 2019 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
It’s a simple, delightful premise: a journal of microdosing. Then Waldman brings so much to the project that it turns into something else, something far more beguiling … The result is constantly entertaining, slyly educational, and surprisingly moving … I don’t know another writer like her.” - William Finnegan, author of Pulitzer Prize-winning Barbarian Days
Ignoring decades of drug war propaganda, Ayelet Waldman bravely chose to take back her psyche using forbidden medicine. The result is this candid and fearless mental travelogue. Funny, wise, surprising, and all too human, this book about peering through the veil of self may just - if you dare to let it - drive you sane - Walter Kirn, author of Up in the Air and Blood Will OutAyelet Waldman is fearless … this is a book about sub-hallucinatory microdoses of LSD but also about marriage and family life, insomnia, addiction, her past as a defense attorney, our insane drug laws, moods and dispositions and afflictions, and a lot of other stuff braided into an informative, amusing, nonchalantly incendiary narrative. You could call this book her war on the war on drugs, but it’s so much more, and so much more funny. - Rebecca SolnitIn this raw, honest, and ultimately hopeful journey, Waldman takes us deep into the forest of her mind and moods. The success of her story with microdosing reminds the medical and legal communities how much still remains to be understand about the brain. - Dr. David Eagleman, neuroscientist, author of The Brain[The last book that made me laugh] may have been Ayelet Waldman’s A Really Good Day in manuscript. It’s a nonfiction book about combating depression by way of a daily micro-dose of LSD, and it’s Ayelet, so you can imagine. - Zadie Smith, in the column “By the Book,” The New York Times Book ReviewA wildly brilliant, radically candid, and rigorous daybook of [Waldman’s] life-changing, last-resort journey. - Lisa Shea, ElleAbout The Author
Ayelet Waldman
AYELET WALDMAN is the author of the novels Love and Treasure, Red Hook Road, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, and Daughter’s Keeper, as well as of the essay collection Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace, and the Mommy-Track Mystery series. She was a federal public defender and taught a course on the legal implications of the War on Drugs at the UC Berkeley law school. She lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband, Michael Chabon, and their four children.
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