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"The Stories That Save Us," a nonfiction work for Vol. 1 Brooklyn essays

  • clairephillipsinst
  • Mar 28, 2022
  • 1 min read

“Don’t worry Claire, you have my genes.” This said by my British astrophysicist father when I called to ask why he had failed to disclose my mother’s actual mental health diagnosis for several years. A man so reticent I didn’t even know he held the John D. MacArthur professorship at Caltech until I did a bit of sleuthing for my memoir, A Room with a Darker View: Chronicles of My Mother and Schizophrenia.


 
 
 

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