Featuring chapters by the author's sister, Glenn Close, an account of the author's experiences with severe bipolar disorder discusses their parents' membership in the Moral Re-Armament cult, her struggles with addiction and her later-in-life diagnosis.

The widow of a man who succumbed to bipolar disorder describes the sudden and tragic descent of her once-brilliant, passionate partner and reflects on how her young daughter and she recovered and learned to forgive throughout subsequent years.

The author recalls his youth with his brother, considering how he and his brother came to be such very different people, and eventually became completely alienated from one another, before finally reconciling in spite of their differences.

Drawing on interviews with scientists and psychologists, and trying a variety of innovative therapies, the author, diagnosed with Complex PTSD—a condition that occurs when trauma happens continuously—investigates the little-understood science behind this disorder that has shaped her life.

The author describes the forks in the road of his life that became formative experiences and encourages readers to look back on their own lives and use their memories as paths to enlightenment.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage—and a life, in good times and bad—that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.
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"Three-time Olympian Lolo Jones delivers a tough yet inspiring look into the strategies she has used to overcome immense obstacles on her way to becoming the number-one women's hurdler in the world"--

The award-winning poet explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself, interweaving snapshots of a life with meditations on secrets, anger, forgiveness and narrative itself and revealing how, in the aftermath of loss, we can discover our power and make something beautiful.

Actress and TV personality Valerie Bertinelli shares an inspiring blueprint that offers women in midlife support and hope. She shares personal stories that many women will relate to from her past decade: hitting her fifties, taking care of her dying mother, the evolving relationship with her husband, a career change, her relationship with food, and the battle to believe in herself as she is.

The author escribes the circumstances of his mother’s death at the hands of his younger brother, a patient with uncontrolled schizophrenia, whose disease the author painstakingly researched throughout a devastating murder trial.