Susannah Cahalan
Susannah Cahalan’s Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (Free Press, $25.00) is a harrowing story of a real medical nightmare. Cahalan was a healthy twenty-four-year-old at the beginning of her first serious relationship and a promising career at The New York Post when she started getting strange symptoms, which began as memory loss and paranoia and progressed to psychosis and near-death catatonia. A million dollars’ worth of medical tests revealed nothing—until she was rescued by the lucky, ingenious intervention of an extraordinary doctor. Cahalan is a news reporter at the New York Post whose award-winning work has also been featured in The New York Times.
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