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Title: The Answer to the Riddle Is Me : A Memoir of Amnesia
Publisher: Short Books, Limited
Publication Date: 2014
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1907595163
ISBN 13: 9781907595165
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good
Weight: 0.633 pounds

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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.

About the Author

David Stuart MacLean is a PEN/American Award-winning writer whose work has appeared in Ploughshares and on the radio program This American Life. He has a PhD from the University of Houston and is a co-founder of the Poison Pen Reading Series. He lives in Chicago.

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