While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence -- Meg Kissinger, Paperback Fiction - Adult not someone else's

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While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence -- Meg Kissinger, Paperback Fiction - Adult not someone else'sFrom award winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illness, as well as an incisive exploration of the systems that failed them and a testament to the love that sustained them. Growing up in the 1960s in the suburbs of Chicago, Meg Kissinger's family seemed to live a charmed life. With eight kids and two loving parents, the Kissingers radiated a warm, boisterous energy. Whether they were spending summer days on