The Mind Reels

Author:   Fredrik DeBoer ,  Thérèse Plummer
Publisher:   Audio Holdings
Edition:   Unabridged edition
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9798228817944


Publication Date:   07 October 2025
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The Mind Reels


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In his debut novel, longtime observer of culture and politics Fredrik deBoer depicts mental illness in all its grim and ugly reality, free of our culture's endless romanticization of insanity. In a dorm room at her safety school, surrounded by corn-fed boys and contemptuous girls, Alice is losing her mind. Her first semester is spent clinging to middling grades between drunken hookups and roommate fights. The next brings sleepless nights, extreme weight loss, and effortless, compulsive energy, paused only by an unexpected summoning from the RA for evaluation. Thus begins an endless march of lithium, antidepressants, and Klonopin; doctors and therapists--when health insurance allows--along with overwhelmed parents and well-intentioned friends; all helpless bystanders as Alice descends deeper into chaos. As chilling as a psychiatric case study, as wry and precise as Flaubert, The Mind Reels peels back society's polite trappings to portray the experience of mental illness in all its complexity.

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Author:   Fredrik DeBoer ,  Thérèse Plummer
Publisher:   Audio Holdings
Imprint:   Audio Holdings
Edition:   Unabridged edition
ISBN:  

9798228817944


Publication Date:   07 October 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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FREDRIK DEBOER is a writer and academic with a PhD from Purdue University. His writing has appeared in such places as The New York Times, Harper's, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Politico, Playboy, New Republic, Foreign Policy, n+1, and Jacobin. He is one of the most original and prolific voices in essays today, and his anti-tribal style has earned him admiration from political thinkers of all quadrants. The Cult of Smart is his first book.

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