mentally ill parents

"A darkly funny and devastating memoir of growing up in '90s Manhattan with a mentally ill single parent"--.

Six-year-old Aoife doesn't understand what happened to her big brother Theo and why her mama is in the hospital. The problem is, no one wants to talk about Theo because he was murdered. With her imaginary friend and her neighbor's detecting skills, Aoife sets out to uncover the truth about her family.

A memoir in which Laura Flynn recalls her childhood and the charmed life she enjoyed with her family, especially her free-spirited, imaginative mother, and discusses how everything changed when her mother lost her grip on reality due to schizophrenia.

Marnie comes back to the South Carolina low country at the request of her sister Diana's ex-husband, after his son returns from a sailing trip with Diana disturbed and refuses to speak, which forces Marnie to revisit the traumatizing death of her and Diana's mother ten years prior.

In 1954, Jack Branch returns to his hometown to teach a class on historical evils at the local high school and becomes a mentor to one student, the son of a notorious local killer, but as he encourages the boy to investigate his father's life, Jack is shocked to find the killer's past linked to his own family.

The author's memoir of growing up with a schizophrenic mother.

Mira Bartok describes life with her mother, Norma, whose struggle with schizophrenia forced Mira and her sister to leave in order to stay safe, but when the sisters learn that Norma is dying, they travel to Cleveland to reunite with their mother and find keys to her storage unit, where they find photos, toys, and other mementos that remind them of childhood.