MEMOIR
Sally Greenberg is just 15 during the summer of '96 when, in the words of her father, Michael, she's "struck mad." She flies into traffic, "rushing oncoming cars"; in a psychiatric ward, she becomes a "feral, glitter-eyed" creature. This memoir of a family crisis captures the grief that transformed their lives that scorching summer, though it falls short in creating a vibrant portrait of Sally before her break. Still, readers come away with a sense of the intractable nature of psychosis and the courage it requires for patients like Sally, whose struggles continue, merely to live.
