Circles Around the Sun by Molly Mccloskey

Circles Around the Sun by Molly Mccloskey

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Summary

When Molly McCloskey was a young girl, her brother Mike--fourteen years her senior and a student at Duke University--started showing signs of paranoid schizophrenia.

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Circles Around the Sun by Molly Mccloskey

Within a few years, his world had begun to fall apart. By the time Molly was old enough to begin to know him, Mike was heavily medicated and frequently delusional, living in hospitals or care homes or on the road. Years later, through reading an astonishing archive of letters preserved by her mother and grandmother, and interviewing old friends of Mike's, Molly began to piece together a picture of her brother's life, before and after the illness struck--the story of how a gifted and well-liked student and athlete was overtaken by a terrible illness that rendered him unrecognizable. Now she tells that story--which is also the story of her own demons and of the ways in which a seemingly perfect family can slowly fall apart, and in the end, regroup. Circles Around the Sun is a work of extraordinary intensity and drama from a wonderfully gifted writer.
Molly McCloskey grew up in Oregon. She is the author of a collection of short stories, Solomon's Seal; a novella and four short stories, The Beautiful Changes; and a novel, Protection. McCloskey continues to work as a journalist.
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ISBN 13 9781468300253
ISBN 10 1468300253
Title Circles Around the Sun
Author Molly Mccloskey
Condition Unavailable
Publisher Overlook Press
Year published 2012-10-25
Number of pages 233
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.