| A Room with a Darker View: Chronicles of My Mother and Schizophrenia Contributor(s): Phillips, Claire (Author) |
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ISBN: 1733957901 ISBN-13: 9781733957908 Publisher: Doppelhouse Press OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | People With Disabilities - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Psychology | Psychopathology - Schizophrenia |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.70 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Health & Fitness - Topical - Family - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A daughter breaks the family silence about her mother's schizophrenia, reframing hospitalizations, paranoia, illness, and caregiving through a feminist lens. Claire Phillips' elegantly written and unflinching memoir about her mother, an Oxford-trained lawyer diagnosed in mid-life with paranoid schizophrenia, challenges current conceptions about mental illness, relapse and recovery, as well as difficulties caring for an aging parent with a chronic disease. Told in fragments, the work also becomes a startling reflection on the evolution of feminism as seen through mother-daughter relationships. Only with her mother's final relapse at age 73 did the author begin to tell this story, first in Black Clock magazine, an essay for which she received a Pushcart nomination and notable mention in The Best American Essays 2015. |
Contributor Bio(s): Phillips, Claire: - Claire Phillips is co-founder and director of the Los Angeles Writers Reading Series, is the author of the novella Black Market Babies (11th Hour Press, 1998) and as a young poet at San Francisco State won the First Prize from the Academy of American Poets. She is a regular contributor to Black Clock magazine, where her essay "Hanging from the Chandeliers" appeared and then received a Pushcart nomination and notable mention in The Best American Essays 2015. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Motherboard-Vice and can be heard on the KQED Writers' Block and found at viralnet.net. In May 2019 she read in Jill Soloway's famed Sit n' Spin series on the Comedy Central stage. She resides in Los Angeles where she teaches critical and creative writing at the California Institute for the Arts (CalArts), the Southern California Institute for Architecture (SCI-Arc), and at UC Irvine. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from New York University, and a BA in English from San Francisco State University. |