The Collected Schizophrenias
Esme Weijun Wang · 2019
Wang writes about living with schizoaffective disorder with precision, dignity, and controlled rage. A clear-eyed reckoning with madness and medicine.
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Wang keeps reminding you she went to Yale, dresses beautifully, and is the presentable face of an unpresentable illness; the essays are honest about this 'high-functioning' vanity without ever quite giving it up. The control that makes the prose admirable also keeps the fire behind glass: you observe the schizophrenias, you rarely feel them. It is a brief, and a brilliant one, more than a descent.
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