Jewish Book Month - Author of After Her Brain Broke to Speak at Vancouver Jewish Book Festival

Nov. 4, 2010 - PRLog -- As one reviewer said, Ms Inman  "with relentless intelligence, perseverance, and love... overcame ignorance, and transformed isolation into community and despair into hope."

Physician and mystery writer Daniel Kalla wrote "After Her Brain Broke is a harrowing, heart wrenching, and ultimately triumphant story of one family's struggle with a child's mental illness. It's impossible not to be moved by Susan Inman's honest and touching account of her daughter's sudden descent into mental health turmoil and the family's long hard battle to overcome it. A must read for families coping with a mental illness, and a wonderful eye-opener for those of us lucky enough not to have been affected."

Dr. Kalla,  the international best selling author of Rage Therapy and Of Flesh and Blood, will also be speaking at the book fair.

Ms Inman's book is recommended by Dr. E Fuller Torrey author of Surviving Schizophrenia, executive director of the Stanley Medical Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland and the founding director of the Treatment Advocacy Center in Arlington, Virginia. Dr. Torrey described After Her Brain Broke as one of the best accounts of serious mental illness he had read and highly recommends it.

After Her Brain Broke has also been recommended by the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

For more information about the book, visit http://www.bridgeross.com/brainbroke.html. For more information about Ms Inman's presentation, visit http://www.jccgv.com/JewishBookFest/events.htm#gold

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Also published by Bridgeross - My Schizophrenic Life: The Road to Recovery From Mental Illness by Sandra Yuen MacKay -"enlightening portrayal of her illness, hospitalizations, relationships, therapeutic activities, and quest for recovery will hold readers captive..... Like Kay Redfield Jamison's more eloquent An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness, this slight piece provides a surprisingly gripping narrative that will appeal to Jamison aficionados" August 15, 2010, online and The Adolescent Owner's Manual by Dr. David Laing Dawson - "Dawson's understated sense of humor translates well to text. While there are a plethora of books available on parenting teens, his to-the-pointness recommends this for busy readers" Library Journal October 21, 2010 online