Brain on Fire

Brain on Fire

by Susannah Cahalan

Simon and Schuster · 2013 · 266 pages

A young journalist's life implodes when she wakes up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there, her body unresponsive and her mind seemingly lost to a terrifying psychosis. This gripping memoir chronicles her month of inexplicable madness and her family's desperate fight to save her. Cahalan reconstructs the harrowing ordeal, revealing a rare medical condition and her courageous journey back to herself.

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