This is a remarkable book about a daughter's search to know her father. Dr. Perry Baird was a brilliant physician and researcher who also suffered from manic depressive disorder. He disappeared from his daughter's life when she was six years old. After his daughter, Mimi, finds a manuscript of her father's where he documented his experiences in various mental institutions, she begins to piece together the years she was separated from her father. His account of his treatment in these institutions in the 1940's is brutal and his account of describing his feelings and experiences is riveting. He actually was researching a biochemical basic for the cause of the mania he was experiencing before the mania episodes became more frequent and incapacitated him.
His published manuscript makes for engaging reading and is a wonderful tribute to a father from his daughter.
I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review.
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