Mark Vonnegut
More than thirty years after the publication of his first memoir The Eden Express, Mark Vonnegut continues his story with this account of coping with mental illness, finding his calling, and learning that willpower isn’t nearly enough. Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir (Bantam, $15.00) depicts a childhood as the son of a struggling writer (his father, Kurt), as well as the world after Vonnegut was released from a mental hospital. At the late age of 28 and after nineteen rejections, he is finally accepted to Harvard Medical School, where he gains purpose, a life, and some control over his condition.
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