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My Brother's Madness

"In this gracefully written memoir, poet and novelist (and practicing psychotherapist) Pines narrates his and his younger brother's lives through the matrix of his brother's mental illness."—Publisher's Weekly.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 318 pages

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