Tanya Frank, a Londoner living in Los Angeles, wrote an essay in The New York Times titled “Unmoored by a Psychotic Break” about her son’s diagnosis with schizoaffective disorder in 2009. Her book about the next decade of her and her son’s life, Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood (W.W. Norton), chronicles how psychiatric illness can redefine the relationships in and beyond a family.
Read moreIntimacies, Received: Poetry by Taneum Bambrick
Bravery, to me, is stepping forward to confront your fears and discomforts, despite the emotions holding you back. After reading Intimacies, Received, Taneum Bambrick’s moving collection of poetry, brave is the word that most readily describes the taut, sometimes treacherous path the poet takes to reclaim her sense of self and connection to her body after a traumatic event.
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