“Pathological is the best book I’ve read in many years. Masterfully written, distinctively researched, and deeply humane, it joins our finest literature on medicine and psychiatry and the eternal riddle we call our minds.
Fay’s artful work is pleasingly unclassifiable: call it medical memoir; mental health thriller; comic punctuation primer; DSM and Big Pharma smackdown. I’ll just call it genius. It’s also contrarian, controversial, and beautifully, validly angry.
If you or anyone you love has spent time in the mental health industrial complex (or, cauldron)—buy this book now and read it.”
— Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead
Sarah Fay’s writing appears in many publications, including Longreads, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time Magazine, The Michigan Quarterly Review, The New Republic, The American Scholar, Bookforum, BOMB, The Iowa Review, The Rumpus, The Millions, McSweeney’s, The Believer, and The Paris Review, where she served as an advisory editor. Her essays have been nominated for Best American Essays and a Pushcart Prize. She is the recipient of the Hopwood Award for Literature, as well as grants and fellowships from Yaddo, the Mellon Foundation, the Center for Book Arts, the Poetry Center of Chicago, and the MacDowell Colony, among others. Her memoir Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses is forthcoming from HarperCollins, March 2022.
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