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Notable: Matters of the mind
By Colette Bancroft, Times Book Editor
Published December 30, 2007
Three recent memoirs focus on how individuals deal with emotional illnesses. Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind (Da Capo), by Paula Kamen, is a friend's memoir about the bestselling author Iris Chang (The Rape of Nanking), whose mental illness led to her suicide. Her Last Death: A Memoir (Scribner), by Susanna Sonnenberg, is a daughter's beautifully written but harrowing account of growing up with a mother who was obsessed with sex and drugs. Look Me in the Eye: My Life With Asperger's (Crown), by John Elder Robison, recounts the difficulties and triumphs of the author (a brother of writer Augusten Burroughs), who in his forties was finally diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, which is related to autism. Colette Bancroft, Times book editor
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