Like crazy : life with my mother and her invisible friends

The Resource Like crazy : life with my mother and her invisible friends
Label
Like crazy : life with my mother and her invisible friends
Title remainder
life with my mother and her invisible friends
Statement of responsibility
Dan Mathews
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
  • A memoir of a mother and son's journey of self-discovery, the mother's diagnosis of schizophrenia, and the ragtag community that rallied to help them when they needed it most--
  • "Dan Mathews knew that his eccentric mother, Perry Lawrence, was outspoken, foul-mouthed, and, at seventy-nine years old, unable to maintain her fiercely independent lifestyle--so he flew her across the country (with a gay man as her escort) to live with him in a dilapidated Victorian townhouse in Portsmouth, Virginia. What he didn't know was that she was schizophrenic. Over the next five years, Dan and Perry built a rollicking life together fueled by costume parties, experiments in drug use, and an unshakeable sense of humor as they faced down illness, natural disasters, and Perry's steady decline. With the help of an ever-expanding circle of friends--boyfriends new and old, strippers, DJs, gun nuts, Evangelical Christians, and everyone in between--they flipped the parent-child relationship on its head, with the globe-trotting animal rights activist finally learning to slow down and care for the woman who raised him. But it wasn't until after a kicking-and-screaming trip to the emergency room that Dan discovered that his mother's lifelong tendency to go it alone wasn't just a manifestation of her free spirit but was actually the inescapable element of a serious and undiagnosed disorder. Witty, emotionally powerful, and deeply moving, Like Crazy is a warm and engrossing memoir about mental illness, reinvention, and the remarkable power of community"--
Assigning source
  • Adapted from dust jacket flap
  • Provided by publisher
Biography type
autobiography
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
  • 616.89/80092
  • B
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
LC call number
RC514.M368
LC item number
A3 2020
Literary form
non fiction
Target audience
adult

Context

Context of Like crazy : life with my mother and her invisible friends

Work of

Structured data from the Bibframe namespace is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Evanston Public Library. Additional terms may apply to data associated with third party namespaces.
Processing Feedback ...