BOOK REVIEW: The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Schizophrenia is ill-understood, and that's just by psychiatrists and psychologists, the rest of us tend to downright misunderstand the condition. Wang's book collects thirteen essays on her experience of living with schizo-affective disorder. I found Wang's prose to be clever and engaging, though she does get into the weeds of technicality a bit in some of the early chapters. The book is not only well-written, it's also brutally forthright. We hear a lot of how the author uses her ...