{"product_id":"a-room-with-a-darker-claire-phillips-9781733957908","title":"A Room with a Darker View: Chronicles of My Mother and Schizophrenia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA daughter breaks the family silence about her mother's schizophrenia, reframing hospitalizations, paranoia, illness, and caregiving through a feminist lens.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClaire Phillips' elegantly written and unflinching memoir about her mother, an Oxford-trained lawyer diagnosed in mid-life with paranoid schizophrenia, challenges current conceptions about mental illness, relapse and recovery, as well as difficulties caring for an aging parent with a chronic disease. Told in fragments, the work also becomes a startling reflection on the evolution of feminism as seen through mother-daughter relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOnly with her mother's final relapse at age 73 did the author begin to tell this story, first in Black Clock magazine, an essay for which she received a Pushcart nomination and notable mention in The Best American Essays 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Claire Phillips\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1733957901\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781733957908\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Doppelhouse Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/18\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d","brand":"Claire Phillips","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43978276307199,"sku":"9781733957908","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1fef1c85-b0c6-4dce-af43-0dc941418e89.jpg?v=1683240668","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-room-with-a-darker-claire-phillips-9781733957908","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}