Starting from early childhood, Deborah A. Lott, author of DON’T GO CRAZY WITHOUT ME, had become an unwitting partner in her father’s mental illness, rife with its bizarre beliefs, fears, rituals, and paranoid delusions. When, Lott, age 16, after her first psychiatric evaluation, enters the clinic’s waiting room, her distraught mother cries,” Do you want to wind up in a mental hospital in a bed next to your father’s? They can give you matching straitjackets, too.” Such is the central conflict in this coming-of-age story: Will Lott be able to break free from a loving yet debilitating bond that threatens her own sanity, when she receives little affection from her emotionally distant mother?
Lott is both painfully honest and funny in her descriptions of her parents and siblings: a middle-class Jewish family uncomfortably settled in an elite gentile community. Her eccentric father, Ira, however, is the true star: A hypochondriac who works from home because he takes frequent naps and can barely get dressed in the morning, but is quick to don his Little Lord Fauntleroy costume to entertain Lott’s ten-year-old guests at her first (and last) childhood birthday party.
Lott neither holds back when describing her own struggles as an outcast among her peers, as well as her raw, guilt-filled reactions to the world she’s forced to inhabit. Set in the mid-1950s to late 1960s), CRAZY captures the zeitgeist of the times. But those times would be a-changing, and perhaps, for Lott, they will bring her the promise of a new world view.
Engaging, filled with gorgeous prose that move the reader forward swiftly and magnificently through Lott’s complex, heartbreaking, and bizarre world, CRAZY lets you temporarily join Lott’s universe as you root for her to find a way out. I know I did.
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Gorgeous prose moves you swiftly through author's comic yet heartbreaking world
Starting from early childhood, Deborah A. Lott, author of DON’T GO CRAZY WITHOUT ME, had become an unwitting partner in her father’s mental illness, rife with its bizarre beliefs, fears, rituals, and paranoid delusions. When, Lott, age 16, after her first psychiatric evaluation, enters the clinic’s waiting room, her distraught mother cries,” Do you want to wind up in a mental hospital in a bed next to your father’s? They can give you matching straitjackets, too.” Such is the central conflict in this coming-of-age story: Will Lott be able to break free from a loving yet debilitating bond that threatens her own sanity, when she receives little affection from her emotionally distant mother?Lott is both painfully honest and funny in her descriptions of her parents and siblings: a middle-class Jewish family uncomfortably settled in an elite gentile community. Her eccentric father, Ira, however, is the true star: A hypochondriac who works from home because he takes frequent naps and can barely get dressed in the morning, but is quick to don his Little Lord Fauntleroy costume to entertain Lott’s ten-year-old guests at her first (and last) childhood birthday party.Lott neither holds back when describing her own struggles as an outcast among her peers, as well as her raw, guilt-filled reactions to the world she’s forced to inhabit. Set in the mid-1950s to late 1960s), CRAZY captures the zeitgeist of the times. But those times would be a-changing, and perhaps, for Lott, they will bring her the promise of a new world view.Engaging, filled with gorgeous prose that move the reader forward swiftly and magnificently through Lott’s complex, heartbreaking, and bizarre world, CRAZY lets you temporarily join Lott’s universe as you root for her to find a way out. I know I did.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2022
Lott is both painfully honest and funny in her descriptions of her parents and siblings: a middle-class Jewish family uncomfortably settled in an elite gentile community. Her eccentric father, Ira, however, is the true star: A hypochondriac who works from home because he takes frequent naps and can barely get dressed in the morning, but is quick to don his Little Lord Fauntleroy costume to entertain Lott’s ten-year-old guests at her first (and last) childhood birthday party.
Lott neither holds back when describing her own struggles as an outcast among her peers, as well as her raw, guilt-filled reactions to the world she’s forced to inhabit. Set in the mid-1950s to late 1960s), CRAZY captures the zeitgeist of the times. But those times would be a-changing, and perhaps, for Lott, they will bring her the promise of a new world view.
Engaging, filled with gorgeous prose that move the reader forward swiftly and magnificently through Lott’s complex, heartbreaking, and bizarre world, CRAZY lets you temporarily join Lott’s universe as you root for her to find a way out. I know I did.
Gorgeous prose moves you swiftly through author's comic yet heartbreaking world
Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2022
Starting from early childhood, Deborah A. Lott, author of DON’T GO CRAZY WITHOUT ME, had become an unwitting partner in her father’s mental illness, rife with its bizarre beliefs, fears, rituals, and paranoid delusions. When, Lott, age 16, after her first psychiatric evaluation, enters the clinic’s waiting room, her distraught mother cries,” Do you want to wind up in a mental hospital in a bed next to your father’s? They can give you matching straitjackets, too.” Such is the central conflict in this coming-of-age story: Will Lott be able to break free from a loving yet debilitating bond that threatens her own sanity, when she receives little affection from her emotionally distant mother?Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2022
Lott is both painfully honest and funny in her descriptions of her parents and siblings: a middle-class Jewish family uncomfortably settled in an elite gentile community. Her eccentric father, Ira, however, is the true star: A hypochondriac who works from home because he takes frequent naps and can barely get dressed in the morning, but is quick to don his Little Lord Fauntleroy costume to entertain Lott’s ten-year-old guests at her first (and last) childhood birthday party.
Lott neither holds back when describing her own struggles as an outcast among her peers, as well as her raw, guilt-filled reactions to the world she’s forced to inhabit. Set in the mid-1950s to late 1960s), CRAZY captures the zeitgeist of the times. But those times would be a-changing, and perhaps, for Lott, they will bring her the promise of a new world view.
Engaging, filled with gorgeous prose that move the reader forward swiftly and magnificently through Lott’s complex, heartbreaking, and bizarre world, CRAZY lets you temporarily join Lott’s universe as you root for her to find a way out. I know I did.
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