Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness

by Catherine Cho

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

"Inferno is a disturbing and masterfully told memoir, but it's also an important one that pushes back against powerful taboos. . ." --The New York Times Book Review

"Explosive" --Good Morning America
"Sublime" --Bookpage (starred review)

When Catherine Cho and her husband set off from London to introduce their newborn son to family scattered across the United States, she could not have imagined what lay in store. Before the trip's end, she develops psychosis, a complete break from reality, which causes her to lose all sense of time and place, including what is real and not real. In desperation, her husband admits her to a nearby psychiatric hospital, where she begins the hard work of rebuilding her identity.

In this unwaveringly honest, insightful, and often shocking memoir Catherine reconstructs her sense of self, starting with her childhood as the daughter of Korean immigrants, moving through a traumatic past relationship, and on to the early years of her courtship with and marriage to her husband, James. She masterfully interweaves these parts of her past with a vivid, immediate recounting of the days she spent in the ward.

The result is a powerful exploration of psychosis and motherhood, at once intensely personal, yet holding within it a universal experience - of how we love, live and understand ourselves in relation to each other.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1250623715

ISBN13:9781250623713

Release Date:August 2020

Publisher:Henry Holt & Company

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.67 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.8" x 8.3"

Related Subjects

Family And Relationships Grief And Loss Identity Crisis Memoir Motherhood Struggles Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Parenting & Relationships

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