Stalking Irish Madness Searching for the Roots of My Family's Schizophrenia

Name: Stalking Irish Madness Searching for the Roots of My Family's Schizophrenia
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ISBN: 9780553805253

ISBN-10: 0553805258

ISBN-13: 9780553805253

Edition: 2008

Authors: Patrick Tracey

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In this powerful, sometimes harrowing, deeply felt story, Patrick Tracey journeys to Ireland to track the origin and solve the mystery of his Irish-American family's multigenerational struggle with schizophrenia. For most Irish Americans, a trip to Ireland is often an occasion to revisit their family's roots. But for Patrick Tracey, the lure of his ancestral home is a much more powerful need: part pilgrimage, part investigation to confront the genealogical mystery of schizophreniaa disease that had claimed a great-great-grandmother, a grandmother, an uncle, and, most recently, two sisters. As long as Tracey could remember, schizophrenia ran on his mother's side, seldom spoken of outright…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/26/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880




The Twisted Strand



Away with the Fairies



Madness Gallops



The First Pounce



The Second Pounce



Too Much for Mom



The Irish Roots



Bog of No Return



London Calling



Beware the Moon



Chasing Egans



Driven to Ballinasloe



Grace of the Gargle



A Celtic Walkabout



Grand Old Men



No Gilding Lilies



Lord of the Glen



The Pearl of Galway



Back to Roscommon



The Haze of the Homefront



Schizophrenia in Wonderland



We Are Family


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