Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See (ALA Notable Books for Adults)

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UPC:
9781616953447
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
2013-11-12
Release Date:
2013-11-12
Author:
Juliann Garey
Language:
english
Edition:
Reprint

Product Overview

A studio executive leaves his family and travels the world giving free reign to the bipolar disorder he's been forced to hide for 20 years.

You wont be able to put down this exhilarating debut novel... brave and touching.
Marie Claire

In her tour-de-force first novel, Juliann Garey takes us inside the restless mind, ravaged heart, and anguished soul of Greyson Todda successful Hollywood studio executive who leaves his wife and young daughter for a decade to travel the world, giving free reign to the bipolar disorder hes been forced to keep hidden for almost 20 years. The novel intricately weaves together three timelines: the story of Greysons travels (Rome, Israel, Santiago, Thailand, Uganda); the progressive unraveling of his own father seen through Greysons childhood eyes; and the intricacies and estrangements of his marriage. The entire narrative unfolds in the time it takes him undergo twelve 30-second electroshock treatments in a New York psychiatric ward.


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