Ty Campana
Brain On Fire
By Susannah Cahalan
What would you think if you woke up one morning and you were suddenly paranoid by everything that happened. Susannah Cahalan had the perfect life falling into her lap. She had her dream job at the New York Post as a news reporter and had her dream boyfriend. One day she woke with a sharp, painful migraine that would not go away, the next day her left arm had gone completely numb, that had then travelled to the whole left side of her body. After getting multiple exams done to try and figure out what was wrong with her, nothing was found. This soon all goes downhill when she one day woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and unable to speak, with no memory of how she had gotten there. just two days earlier she had the perfect life and now she was labeled as violent, psychotic and a flight risk? how did this happen?
Within the first 5 chapters of this book the story is extremely intriguing and although it is a memoir I find myself very into the story. So far they have not given us a specific diagnosis as to what Susannah has, but the fact that she is slowly losing her mind and losing her identity is very interesting and is always keeping wondering what is going to happen next.
I would recommend this book this book to anybody who is mature enough to handle the mature words and intense story lines that are in this book. There is a lot of heavy things that happen to Susannah throughout the story and I feel like you have to be mature enough to understand it.
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