One day in 2009, twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, and wearing a wristband that marked her as a “flight risk.” Her medical records-chronicling a month-long hospital stay, of which she had no memory at all-showed hallucinations, violence, and dangerous instability. She lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.ĪBOUT THE NEW BOOK: The New York Times Bestseller that NPR calls “stunningly brave…a kind of anti-memoir, an out-of-body personal account of a young woman’s fight to survive one of the cruelest diseases imaginable…An unexpected gift of a book from one of America’s most courageous young journalists.” EVENT OVERVIEW: Susannah Cahalan, The New York Times Bestselling Author will present her compelling memoir Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness.ĪBOUT THE AUTHOR: Susannah Cahalan is a news reporter at The New York Post whose Award-Winning work has also been featured in The New York Times.
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