Hurry Down Sunshine
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At the age of 15, during
one long and difficult summer, Michael Greenberg’s daughter, Sally, was struck
mad. Her visionary crack-up occurred on the streets of Greenwich Village and
continued, among other places, in the lost-in-time world of a Manhattan
psychiatric ward during New York City’s most sweltering months.
Hurry Down Sunshine
is Greenberg’s journey toward comprehending mental illness in his own family.
With touching honesty and intimacy, he reveals the effect of Sally’s mania on
those closest to her, including her easygoing brother, her stalwart grandmother,
her new-age mother, her artistic, loving stepmother—and, finally, on himself.
Unsentimental, nuanced
and deeply humane, Hurry Down Sunshine is a transcendent memoir about
mental illness and the restorative power of one father’s love for his daughter.
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Critical Praise for
Hurry Down Sunshine
“A classic of its kind. . . . Lucid, realistic, compassionate and
illuminating.”
—
New York Review of Books
“A startling piece of writing, by turns sobering and surreal.”
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Booklist (starred review)
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Hurry Down Sunshine
At the age of 15, during one long and difficult summer, Michael Greenberg's daughter, Sally, was struck mad. Her visionary crackup occurred on the streets of Greenwich Village, and continued, among other places, in the lost-in-time world of a Manhattan psychiatric ward during the city's most...
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