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From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illness, as well as an incisive exploration of the systems that failed them & a testament to the love that sustained them.
Growing up in the 1960s in the suburbs of Chicago, Meg Kissinger's family seemed to live a charmed life. With eight kids & two loving parents, the Kissingers radiated a warm, boisterous energy. Whether they were spending summer days on the shores of Lake Michigan, barreling down the ski slopes, or navigating the trials of their Catholic school, the Kissingers always knew how to live large & play hard.
But behind closed doors, a harsher reality was unfolding—a heavily medicated mother hospitalized for anxiety & depression, a manic father prone to violence, & children in the throes of bipolar disorder & depression, two of whom would take their own lives. Through it all, the Kissingers faced the world with their signature dark humor & the unspoken family rule–never talk about it.
While You Were Out begins as the personal story of one family’s struggles, then opens outward as Kissinger details how childhood tragedy catalyzed a journalism career focused on exposing our country’s flawed mental health care. Combining the intimacy of memoir with the rigor of investigative reporting, the book explores the consequences of shame, the havoc of botched public policy, & the hope offered by new treatment strategies.
Powerful, candid & filled with surprising humor, this is the story of one family’s love & resilience in face of great loss.
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Meg Kissinger spent more than 2 decades traveling across the US writing about America’s mental health system for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
