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Moving, harrowing, and ultimately uplifting, Lori Schiller's memoir is a classic testimony to the ravages of mental illness and the power of perseverance and courage. At seventeen, Lori Schiller was the perfect child, the only daughter of an affluent, close-knit family. Six years later, she made her first suicide attempt, then wandered the streets of New York City dressed in ragged clothes, tormenting voices crying out in her mind. Lori Schiller had entered the horrifying world of full-blown schizophrenia. She began an ordeal of hospitalizations, halfway houses, relapses, more suicide attempts, and constant, withering despair. But against all odds, she survived. In this personal account, she tells how she did it, taking us not only into her own shattered world but also drawing on the words of the doctors who treated her and family members who suffered with her.

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A book of rare power, passion, and intelligence. Travel with Lori into the heart of schizophrenia, and you will never be the same. -- Diane Sawyer, award-winning television new anchor A dramatic and hopeful chronicle of the horrors of her disease and her escape from it. -- Harvard Magazine Candid...courageous. -- San Diego Union-Tribune Fascinating...Undoubtedly will find a place in the cherished literature of first-person accounts of suffering and recovery. -- Washington Post Book World Makes frighteninly real the terror of schizophrenia. -- USA Today With Wall Street Journal reporter Bennett, [Schiller] presents her stunning story of courage, persistence, and hope. -- Publishers Weekly

A dramatic and hopeful chronicle of the horrors of her disease and her escape from it. -- Harvard Magazine Fascinating...Undoubtedly will find a place in the cherished literature of first-person accounts of suffering and recovery. -- Washington Post Book World With Wall Street Journal reporter Bennett, [Schiller] presents her stunning story of courage, persistence, and hope. -- Publishers Weekly Candid...courageous. -- San Diego Union-Tribune A book of rare power, passion, and intelligence. Travel with Lori into the heart of schizophrenia, and you will never be the same. -- Diane Sawyer, award-winning television new anchor Makes frighteninly real the terror of schizophrenia. -- USA Today

With Wall Street Journal reporter Bennett, [Schiller] presents her stunning story of courage, persistence, and hope. -- Publishers Weekly A dramatic and hopeful chronicle of the horrors of her disease and her escape from it. -- Harvard Magazine Candid...courageous. -- San Diego Union-Tribune A book of rare power, passion, and intelligence. Travel with Lori into the heart of schizophrenia, and you will never be the same. -- Diane Sawyer, award-winning television new anchor Fascinating...Undoubtedly will find a place in the cherished literature of first-person accounts of suffering and recovery. -- Washington Post Book World Makes frighteninly real the terror of schizophrenia. -- USA Today

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Lori Schiller, now Lori Jo Baach, is the author of the memoir The Quiet Room: A Journey out of the Torment of Madness. When she was seventeen, she began to hear voices, and was later diagnosed with schizo-affective disorder. Her memoir follows her story as well as her family and friends as they navigate her mental disorder. She and her husband live in Florida. Amanda Bennett is an author and award-winning journalist. During her twenty-three-year career with the Wall Street Journal, she shared the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting, and in 2001 she led a team from the Oregonian to a Pulitzer Prize for public service. While executive editor at Bloomberg News, projects by the Bloomberg Projects and Investigations team won numerous awards, including Loeb, Polk, Barlett & Steele, Headliners, Society of American Business Editors and Writers, and Overseas Press Club Awards. Brittany Pressley has won several Earphones Awards as well as the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration in 2018. She has recorded over one hundred titles and has received several nominations for American Library Association's annual list of Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults. She is also an accomplished singer-songwriter and voice actress. Her voice can be heard on national and international TV and radio commercials as well as several animated series and video games. She is a graduate of Columbia University. Gregory Abbey, also known under the aliases Frank Frankson and John Campbell, is an American voice actor who is known for working with 4Kids Entertainment, DuArt Film and Video, NYAV Post and Central Park Media.

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