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Zig-zag boy : a memoir of madness and motherhood / Tanya Frank.

by Frank, Tanya.

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W.W. Norton & Company, 2023.

362.26092 F828z

Parents of mentally ill children -- United States -- Biography.

Mentally ill -- Family relationships -- Biography.

Mothers and sons -- United States -- Biography.

9780393531886 (hc.)

x, 210 p. ; 22 cm.

"One night in 2009, Tanya Frank finds her nineteen-year-old son, Zach --gentle and full of promise-- in the grip of what the psychiatrists would label a psychotic break. Suddenly and inexplicably, Tanya is thrown into a parallel universe: Zach's world, where the phones are bugged, his friends have joined the Mafia, and helicopters are spying on his family. In the years following Zach's shifting psychiatric diagnoses, Tanya goes to war for her son, desperate to find the right answer, the right drug, the right doctor to bring him back to reality. Holding on to startling moments of hope and seeking solace in nature and community, Tanya learns how to abandon her fears for the future and accept the mysteries of her son's altered states."

Tanya Frank received her MFA in creative nonfiction at the University of California, Riverside. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, New York Times, Washington Post, Observer, and elsewhere. She lives in London with her wife.

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