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Joanna
Mintzer
Raising an adopted bipolar child
VT ,
USA
More important than my story, i wish to thank Mr Solomon for writing what I think is one of the mostly timely and significant books of this century. I think you should win the Pulitzer for it. You have succeeded in writing the most profound and compassionate yet unsentimental study of the problems of identity and illness I have had the privilege of reading. You eloquently illustrate and articulate in a powerfully fluid style a whole array of complex moral,ethical, emotional, social, psychological, political and economic issues surrounding "profound difference" in our conformist culture that have remained untouchable, hidden, unspeakable and even forbidden. You have given to those of us who have lived this conundrum intimately a voice, compassionate regard, insight and profound understanding of an ultimately paradoxical on-going life experience filled with anguish, isolation, shame and then, if one is lucky, hope (without expectation), and maybe transformation from non-being into being and from anomy into meaning peppered with moments of joy. I cannot thank you enough for tackling the subject of this book. I can barely imagine (and inadequately), what it must have cost you to listen so ably, so totally to all these stories, to place them in a social/political/economic/cultural context larger than the particular such that every reader is enlightened, informed, amplified and, dare I say, blessed by your profound humanity that illuminates the whole dark journey. Thank you, thank you. Sincerely, Joanna Luria Mintzer