![]() ![]() In the first third, Susannah recalls with such clarity the feeling of is this really happening or am I losing my mind? Specifically, the first thing that happens is she’s sure she has bed bugs but other people (including the exterminator) see no evidence of them. The first two thirds of the book are quite strong for different reasons. The third part covers the first part of her recovery time in the first year or so after she recovers her memory. The second covers the time period of her illness that she actually can’t remember, and features her own investigative journalism into what happened during that time. ![]() Divided into three parts, the first establishes Susannah’s life when she came down with the illness and the first appearance of symptoms. Written by a journalist, the reader soon discovers this memoir is a survivor’s tale of brain encephalitis. Now she was labeled violent, psychotic, a flight risk. ![]() Days earlier, she had been on the threshold of a new, adult life: at the beginning of her first serious relationship and a promising career at a major New York newspaper. When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak, she had no memory of how she’d gotten there. ![]()
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