Zig-zag boy : a memoir of madness and motherhood
(2023)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
MEMOIR/FRANK,T

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Biography & Memoir MEMOIR/FRANK,T Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]
DESCRIPTION

x, 210 pages ; 22 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780393531886, 0393531880 :, 0393531880, 9780393531886
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"One night in 2009, Tanya Frank finds her nineteen-year-old son, Zach--gentle and full of promise--in the grip of what the psychiatrists would label a psychotic break. Suddenly and inexplicably, Tanya is thrown into a parallel universe: Zach's world, where the phones are bugged, his friends have joined the Mafia, and helicopters are spying on his family. In the years following Zach's shifting psychiatric diagnoses, Tanya goes to war for her son, desperate to find the right answer, the right drug, the right doctor to bring him back to reality. Holding on to startling moments of hope and seeking solace in nature and community, Tanya learns how to abandon her fears for the future and accept the mysteries of her son's altered states."--