The work begins with an arresting line: “It was somewhere between my 34th and 39th year when I began to go crazy.” In the 1980s, the author was living with her husband and three children in a yellow-brick house outside Philadelphia. She says that she began to hear conflicting voices in her mind, which she initially interpreted as ordinary thought processes. However, she also felt her love for her children was weakening, and she couldn’t understand why. Later, her spouse … Read the rest