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"Joan Carol Lieberman's mother developed paranoid schizophrenia shortly after the author's birth in 1942. Her poignant narrative of how she sought optimal distance from her mother's dangerous paranoid impulses is a powerful reminder of the urgent need to find a cure for schizophrenia."
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"Joan Carol Lieberman's mother developed paranoid schizophrenia shortly after the author's birth in 1942. Her poignant narrative of how she sought optimal distance from her mother's dangerous paranoid impulses is a powerful reminder of the urgent need to find a cure for schizophrenia.".
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"Told entirely through the transcripts of the narrator's psychiatric sessions, this intimate portrait of grief and longing follows twenty-year-old Alicia Western as she, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, contemplates the nature of madness, her hallucinations and her own existence in 1972 Black River Falls, Wisconsin"--
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10 books, 1 discussion guide, 6 week checkout. SUMMARY : On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born -- a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam -- and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation....
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