Victoria Maiden

A child of 1950s-era New York City, Victoria Maiden was raised in a solid working-class neighborhood in the Bronx. The first member of her family to attend college, she looked forward to a career in publishing, law, or academia. But Fate had other plans, as painstakingly revealed in the pages of the surprising and unusual memoir she decided to write, giving an up-close and personal look at what it is like to live a life marred by mental illness.