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Author MacLean, David, 1974-

Title The answer to the riddle is me : a memoir of amnesia / David MacLean.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.

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Location Call No. Status
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  814.54 MacLEAN    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  616.85232 MAC    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  B MACLEAN, D.    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  616.8523 MACLEAN    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  616.85 MACLEAN    Check Shelf
Description 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary "In 2002, at age twenty-eight, David MacLean "woke up" in a foreign land with his memory wiped clean. No money. No passport. No identity. Taken to a mental hospital by the police, MacLean then started to hallucinate so severely he had to be tied down. Soon he could remember song lyrics and scenes from television shows, but not his family, his friends, or the woman he loved. All of these symptoms, it turned out, were the result of the commonly prescribed malarial medication he was taking. Upon his return to the States, he struggled to piece together the fragments of his former life in a harrowing, absurd, and unforgettable journey back to himself. A deeply felt, closely researched, and intensely personal book, The Answer to the Riddle Is Me, drawn from MacLean's award-winning This American Life essay, confronts and celebrates the dark, mysterious depths of our psyches and the myriad ways we are all unknowable, especially to ourselves. "-- Provided by publisher.
Subject MacLean, David, 1974-
Amnesiacs -- Biography.
ISBN 9780547519272 hardback
0547519273 hardback
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