This month we will be discussing the book Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan (November 2012). Copies are available through NOBLE(Regular Print), Libby as an (E-bookand E-audio). The Biography Book Club meets on the 3rd Monday of the month at 6:30pm on Zoom (this is dependent on library closings) and the link is emailed late the same afternoon. You can also email mcgeorge@noblenet.org with any questions.

About the book:

An award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one woman’s struggle to recapture her identity.

When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak, she had no memory of how she’d gotten there. Days earlier, she had been on the threshold of a new, adult life: at the beginning of her first serious relationship and a promising career at a major New York newspaper. Now she was labeled violent, psychotic, a flight risk. What happened?

In a swift and breathtaking narrative, Cahalan tells the astonishing true story of her descent into madness, her family’s inspiring faith in her, and the lifesaving diagnosis that nearly didn’t happen.