Unsung is a riveting, emotional memoir not for the weak of heart
but for all who have wished for hearts capable of enduring in spite
of loss. Unsung is about a mother and daughter's battle to cope
with schizophrenia, a disabling mental illness that resists
treatment and affects the lives of everyone close to those living
with it. Unsung cuts scalpel-like to the rotten core of our current
mental health care system, exposing pharmaceutical companies,
mental health care centers, and psychiatrists for the often
unconscionable role they play in doing everything but healing those
who are mentally ill. It is a memoir in which the truth is
unbelievable. And the unbelievable is true. Fired with a mother's
fury and passion. Laced with love and laughter. Irreverently
reverent about everything from affairs of the garbage industry to
Zen, rich with one-of-a-kind friendships, it is one woman's journey
to heal her daughter and to find herself. The journey is both
heartbreaking and heartwarming. There is romance so strong some
readers will buy the book simply to read and reread Haley's
passionate encounters with Jake Welch-a German Italian bad boy and
full-time mechanic, twelve years her junior. But there is more than
one love story in these pages, along with many surprises. The
memoir takes its readers through cross country moves, an eviction,
a car wreck, hurricanes, a near drowning, the loss of two jobs,
loss of credit, an audition for a reality t.v. show, suicides.
Women of all ages will read Unsung because it will take them from
the place they are and the things they have feared to who they can
be. Men will read Unsung for a thoughtful, funny woman's take on
who they are and who they aren't. Those living with mental illness
will read Unsung to learn and to grieve and to find hope. Those who
love action and suspense, thrill seekers, will read Unsung for an
unbelievably believable adventure. Romantics will read Unsung for
its unusual love story. Those who love true stories will read
Unsung to connect with a mother's real experience with her child's
illness. Unsung is both timely, with our newfound awareness and
appreciation of the fact women do blossom as they age, and topical,
since most of our lives are affected in one way or another by
mental illness. But it is much more than that. With its honest,
often funny, always courageously tender human voice, Unsung is a
memoir that urges its readers to hitch hike through stars, to fly
through water, to swim the earth, to dive down deep enough to find
themselves.
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