The Collected Schizophrenias

Resumen del libro

'Dazzling ... in her kaleidoscopic essays, memoir has been shattered into sliding and overlapping pieces ... mind-expanding' The New York Times Book Review Esme Weijun Wang was officially diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder in 2013, although the hallucinations and psychotic episodes had started years before that.

In the midst of a high functioning life at Yale, Stanford and the literary world, she would find herself floored by an overwhelming terror that 'spread like blood', or convinced that she was dead, or that her friends were robots, or spiders were eating holes in her brain. What happens when your whole conception of yourself is turned upside down? When you're aware of what is occurring to you, but unable to do anything about it? Written with immediacy and unflinching honesty, this visceral and moving book is Wang's story, as she steps both inside and outside of her condition to bring it to light. Following her own diagnosis and the many manifestations of schizophrenia in her life, she ranges over everything from how we label mental illness to her own use of fashion and make-up to present herself as high-functioning, from the failures of the higher education system to how factors such as PTSD and Lyme disease compounded her experiences.

Biografía del autor

Esmé Weijun Wang es novelista y ensayista. Nacida en Míchigan, es hija de padres taiwaneses. En 2016 publicó su primera novela, x{0026}lt;i The Border of Paradisex{0026}lt;/i . En 2017 fue escogida por Granta como una de las mejores novelistas estadounidenses jóvenes y en 2018 le concedieron el Premio Whiting. En 2019 x{0026}lt;i Todas las esquizofreniasx{0026}lt;/i ganó el Premio Graywolf Press de No Ficción, entró en la lista de los libros más vendidos de x{0026}lt;i The New York Timesx{0026}lt;/i y fue seleccionado como uno de los libros del año por la revista x{0026}lt;i Timex{0026}lt;/i .