We children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don't want you to think that anything is wrong.

- Mira Bartok

I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.

- Mira Bartok

My dog, Ginger, is jumpy-like me-sensitive to sound and sudden movement. She wasn't that way at first, but not long after we got her, my grandfather …

- Mira Bartok

We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them, our recollections in their retelling.

- Mira Bartok

Cheryl Strayed reminds us, in her lyrical and courageous memoir Wild, of what it means to be fully alive, even in the face of catastrophe, physical a…

- Mira Bartok

Eloquent and moving... an extraordinary testament to the enduring power of love - beyond faith and dogma. It reminds us of why we are here: to love a…

- Mira Bartok

Children of the mentally ill learn early on how not to be a bother, especially if they grew up with neglect. As my sister insisted once, when she was…

- Mira Bartok

Who am I, then, if my memory is impaired?

- Mira Bartok

Candid and searing, Deborah Jiang Stein’s memoir is a remarkable story about identity, lost and found, and about the author’s journey to reclaim—and …

- Mira Bartok