Resilience
Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness
Contributors
By Jessie Close
By Pete Earley
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- On Sale
- Jan 13, 2015
- Page Count
- 320 pages
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing
- ISBN-13
- 9781455548828
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$39.00Price
$49.00 CADFormat
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At a young age, Jessie Close struggled with symptoms that would transform into severe bipolar disorder in her early twenties, but she was not properly diagnosed until she reached adulthood. Jessie and her three siblings spent many years in the Moral Re-Armament cult. Jessie passed her childhood in New York, Switzerland, Connecticut, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), and finally Los Angeles, where her life quickly became unmanageable—she was just fifteen years old.
Jessie’s emerging mental illness led her into a life of addictions, five failed marriages, and to the brink of suicide. She fought to raise her children despite her ever worsening mental conditions and under the strain of damaged romantic relationships. Glenn’s vignettes in Resilience provide an alternate perspective on Jessie’s life as it began to spiral out of control.
In Resilience, Jessie dives into the dark and dangerous shadows of mental illness without shying away from its horror and turmoil. With New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Pete Earley, she tells of finally discovering the treatment she needs and, with the encouragement of her sister and others, the emotional fortitude to bring herself back from the edge.
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"She has lived a life that even at her worst was spellbinding, and it's a definitely-worth-the-read memoir."USA Today
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"It's obvious that this is no ordinary memoir...hard to put down...Close is telling her story to the world in hopes of removing the stigma from mental illness. It's a story well worth reading."BookPage
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"Her memoir tells of all this in frank, gritty detail."Maclean's
