While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence TC_Bestseller “Ambitious and revelatory

“Ambitious and revelatory

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zombielike workers who are programmed to produce the drugs that are Opium’s main export

the effects of which echo across continents and generations

and the team of brilliant scientists that unleashed its secrets from the ice

While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence TC_Bestseller “Ambitious and revelatoryFrom award winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illness, as well as an incisive exploration of the systems that failed them and a testament to the love that sustained them. Growing up in the 1960s in the suburbs of Chicago, Meg Kissingers family seemed to live a charmed life. With eight kids and two loving parents, the Kissingers radiated a warm, boisterous energy. Whether they were spending summer days on