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Living in the Long Shadow (Surviving a Legacy of Mental Illness)
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Product Details
Author:
Suzanne Sherman
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
312
Publisher:
She Writes Press (September 29, 2026)
Imprint:
She Writes Press
Release Date:
September 29, 2026
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9798896361589
Weight:
7.41oz
Dimensions:
5.5" x 8.5"
File:
Eloquence-SimonSchuster_05062026_P10050412_onix30-20260506.xml
Folder:
Eloquence
List Price:
$18.99
Pub Discount:
65
Case Pack:
32
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$14.62
Publisher Identifier:
P-SS
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A
Overview
This poignant and compelling memoir, set in ’60s–’70s Los Angeles, traces a daughter’s experience of her mother’s schizophrenia and its lasting fallout before she ultimately reckons with her mother’s suicide and trusts in enduring love.
When Suzanne Sherman is four, her musically gifted mother is struck by sudden-onset schizophrenia, altering the course of Suzanne’s childhood.
Told in dual timelines—the years of her childhood and the two weeks following her mother’s suicide when Suzanne is eighteen—Living in the Long Shadow traces Suzanne’s coming of age in the shadow of mental illness as her family struggles with its far-reaching effects. As a teenager, Suzanne makes the difficult decision to move out of her mother’s house and go to live with her father and stepfamily—a challenging but ultimately positive choice. While her mother manages life on medication, Suzanne forms a friendship with her, sharing values, confidences, and a love of music and poetry. But a year after leaving Los Angeles for college, she learns that her mother, who was unable to live with the medication or without it, has taken her own life.
Ten years later, an extraordinary sign comes from her mother—one that affirms the enduring presence of her love for Suzanne—and her grief begins to make room for acceptance.
When Suzanne Sherman is four, her musically gifted mother is struck by sudden-onset schizophrenia, altering the course of Suzanne’s childhood.
Told in dual timelines—the years of her childhood and the two weeks following her mother’s suicide when Suzanne is eighteen—Living in the Long Shadow traces Suzanne’s coming of age in the shadow of mental illness as her family struggles with its far-reaching effects. As a teenager, Suzanne makes the difficult decision to move out of her mother’s house and go to live with her father and stepfamily—a challenging but ultimately positive choice. While her mother manages life on medication, Suzanne forms a friendship with her, sharing values, confidences, and a love of music and poetry. But a year after leaving Los Angeles for college, she learns that her mother, who was unable to live with the medication or without it, has taken her own life.
Ten years later, an extraordinary sign comes from her mother—one that affirms the enduring presence of her love for Suzanne—and her grief begins to make room for acceptance.
