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In the vein of bestselling memoirs about mental illness like Andrew Solomon's Noonday Demon, Sarah Hepola's Blackout, and Daniel Smith's Monkey Mind comes a gorgeously immersive, immediately relatable, and brilliantly funny memoir about living life on the razor's edge of panic.The world never made any sense to Amanda Stern--how could she trust time to keep flowing, the sun to rise, gravity to hold her feet to the ground, or even her own body to work the way it was supposed to? Deep down, she knows that there's something horribly wrong with her, some defect that her siblings and friends don't have to cope with.Growing up in the 1970s and 80s in New York, Amanda experiences the magic and madness of life through the filter of unrelenting panic. Plagued with fear that her friends and family will be taken from her if she's not watching-that her mother will die, or forget she has children and just move away-Amanda treats every parting as her last.
About the Author
Amanda Stern is the author of THE LONG HAUL and eleven books for children written under the pseudonyms A.J. Stern and Fiona Rosenbloom. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, The Believer, and Interview, among other places, and she has been included in a variety of anthologies. In 2003, she founded the popular Happy Ending Music and Reading Series in NYC which she ran until 2016, at Joe's Pub (part of The Public Theater) and later at Symphony Space. Her current book is LITTLE PANIC, a memoir about growing up with an undiagnosed panic disorder in Etan Patz era Greenwich Village. It comes out on June 19, 2018 from Grand Central Publishing.
