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Recalling Jeanette Walls's A Glass Castle, Relative Stranger is an emotionally honest, gripping memoir of one woman’s attempt to piece together a humane portrait of her dead sister and the struggle of mental illness. After learning that her older sister Catherine, who had vanished long ago, had been inhabiting the identity” of a man called Stevie,” Mary Loudon plunges into a kind of post-mortem investigation to understand who her sister was. Interviewing doctors, nurses, social services representatives, nuns, cafe owners, grocers and ministers, Loudon paints an explicit, clear account of how schizophrenia affected a promising young life while exploring the assumptions people make about mental illness. Relative Stranger stands as an honest and uncompromising challenge to the ways in which we think about one another and what it means to love, to lose, to die and above all to belong.
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"In Crisp prose, she pieces together Catherine's missing years. . . . Loudon's book is a moving and loving testament to a messy, complicated life. A-"
"Quietly astonishing . . . A finely written ode to a tough, indomitable woman that reveals how the bonds of familial love can survive even a nearly lifelong separation."
"A gifted writer . . . With great passion, Loudon attempts in spare, incisive prose to reconstruct the life to which her sister painfully denied her access. . . . Smart, affecting, and self-critically probing: a balm for anyone who has lost a loved one long before death."
"People as empathic as Mary Loudon are rare. Writers as incisive and clean are even rarer. Her loving, sharp, elucidating journey into the mind of madness is a testament to the power of understanding, and to how far determination can take us all in the quest to touch the singular beauty and loneliness of another human soul."
"Quietly astonishing . . . A finely written ode to a tough, indomitable woman that reveals how the bonds of familial love can survive even a nearly lifelong separation."
"A gifted writer . . . With great passion, Loudon attempts in spare, incisive prose to reconstruct the life to which her sister painfully denied her access. . . . Smart, affecting, and self-critically probing: a balm for anyone who has lost a loved one long before death."
"People as empathic as Mary Loudon are rare. Writers as incisive and clean are even rarer. Her loving, sharp, elucidating journey into the mind of madness is a testament to the power of understanding, and to how far determination can take us all in the quest to touch the singular beauty and loneliness of another human soul."
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- PublisherCanongate U.S.
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1841957844
- ISBN 13 9781841957845
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages352
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