Resilience
Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness
$77.31
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
10 February 2015
Summary
The Close sisters are descended from very prominent and wealthy ancestors. When the Close sisters were very young, their parents joined a cult called the MRA, or Moral Rearmament. The family was suddenly uprooted to a cult school in Switzerland and, ultimately, to the Belgian Congo where their father became a surgeon in the war ravaged republic, and ultimately the personal physician to President Mobutu. Shortly after the girls returned to the US for boarding school, Jessie first started to ex…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781455548828 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1455548820 |
| Author: | Jessie Close, Pete Earley |
| Publisher: | Grand Central Publishing |
| Imprint: | Grand Central Publishing |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 10 February 2015 |
| Weight: | 544g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 160mm x 29mm |
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“She has lived a life that even at her worst was spellbinding, and it’s a definitely-worth-the-read memoir.”– USA Today
“Her memoir tells of all this in frank, gritty detail.”–Maclean’s“It’s obvious that this is no ordinary memoir…hard to put down…Close is telling her story to the world in hopes of removing the stigma from mental illness. It’s a story well worth reading.”–BookPage“She has lived a life that even at her worst was spellbinding, and it’s a definitely-worth-the-read memoir.”–USA Today
About The Author
Jessie Close
Jessie Close is an internationally recognized speaker, author, poet and advocate for mental health reform. She lives with bipolar disorder in the foothills of the Tobacco Root Mountains outside Bozeman, Montana with her Service Dog, Snitz, and three other dogs. She is the author of The Warping of Al, (Harper & Row 1990) and she writes a regular blog for Bring Change 2 Mind, an anti-stigma organization that her sister, Glenn, created at Jessie’s request. Jessie has received awards from the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the largest grassroots mental health organization in America with more than 600,000 members, and Mental Health America, the largest grassroots group of persons living with mental disorders. She also has received the Jed Foundation Award and The McLean Award. Along with her son, Calen, Jessie is a much sought-after inspirational speaker.
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