The Arroyo Book Club will be reading The Center Cannot Hold by Elyn R. Saks for its February meeting. The book is described with:
Elyn Saks is a success by any measure: she's an endowed professor at the prestigious University of Southern California Gould School of Law. She has managed to achieve this in spite of being diagnosed as schizophrenic and given a "grave" prognosis--and suffering the effects of her illness throughout her life.
In The Center Cannot Hold, Elyn Saks discusses frankly and movingly the paranoia, the inability to tell imaginary fears from real ones, and the voices in her head insisting she do terrible things, as well as the many obstacles she overcame to become the woman she is today.
“A much-praised memoir of living and surviving mental illness as well as "a stereotype-shattering look at a tenacious woman whose brain is her best friend and her worst enemy" (Time).It sounds like an intriguing look at coping with a debilitating mental illness. Stop by the library for a copy and make plans to join us on February 23 at 3:00 for the book discussion.
