Hurry Down Sunshine
A Father's Memoir of Love and Madness
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4.3 • 43 Ratings
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Publisher Description
“Hurry Down Sunshine is about tenacity and tenderness...but mostly it’s about love.” —OPRAH WINFREY
AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH PICK
This international bestseller is an extraordinary family story and an exceptionally powerful memoir about coping withbipolar disorder, now with a new afterword for the ten-year anniversary edition.
Michael Greenberg recounts in vivid detail the remarkable summer when, at the age of fifteen, his daughter was struck mad. It begins with Sally's sudden visionary crack-up on the streets of Greenwich Village, and continues, among other places, in the out-of-time world of a Manhattan psychiatric ward during the city's sweltering summer. It is a tale of a family broken open, then painstakingly, movingly stitched together again.
Greenberg's unforgettable cast of characters includes an unconventional psychiatrist, an Orthodox Jewish patient, a manic Classics professor, a movie producer, and a landlord with literary aspirations. Unsentimental, nuanced, and deeply humane, Hurry Down Sunshine is essential reading in the literature of affliction with such classics as Girl, Interrupted and An Unquiet Mind.
Customer Reviews
Hurry Down Sunshine
A very moving depiction of the writer's family's experience with mental illness.
Simply magnificent
A magnificent read. Greenberg’s vivid descriptions of his journey alongside his daughter into the depths of her psychotic brain shed light onto a very mysterious underworld. His writing is brilliantly clear, wry, and humble. I couldn’t put it down. Bravo, Mr. Greenberg.
I had to keep reading...
Michael Greenberg's account of his role in the startling first summer of his daughter's mental illness reads like a novel whose end you can't wait to reach, but fear to reach at the same time.