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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"Inferno is a disturbing and masterfully told memoir, but it's also an important one that pushes back against powerful taboos. . ."-The New York Times Book Review"Explosive"-Good Morning AmericaWhen Catherine Cho and her husband set off from London to introduce their newborn son to family scattered across the United States, she could not have imagined what lay in store. Before the trip's end, she develops psychosis, a complete break from reality, which causes her to lose all sense of time and place, including what is real and not real. In desperation, her husband admits her to a nearby psychiatric hospital, where she begins the hard work of rebuilding her identity.In this unwaveringly honest, insightful, and often shocking memoir Catherine reconstructs her sense of self, starting with her childhood as the daughter of Korean immigrants, moving through a traumatic past relationship, and on to the early years of her courtship with and marriage to her husband, James. She masterfully interweaves these parts of her past with a vivid, immediate recounting of the days she spent in the ward.The result is a powerful exploration of psychosis and motherhood, at once intensely personal, yet holding within it a universal experience-of how we love, live, and understand ourselves in relation to each other.

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'A beautifully written account of postpartum psychosis, and the ties, blessings and burdens of family' NIGELLA LAWSONSHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE*Observer Book of the Week**A Guardian Memoir of the Year 2020**Harper's Bazaar 10 Women Who Will Shape What You Watch, See and Read in 2020* 'Striking and original' Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Times'Completely devastating. Completely heartbreaking' Daisy JohnsonCatherine Cho's son was three months old when she and her husband left home to introduce him to their families. Catherine herself could never have envisaged how the trip would end for her - surfacing in an involuntary psychiatric ward, separated from her husband and child, unable to understand who she was, or remember how she got there. In her two weeks on the ward, Catherine turned to her notebook to reconstruct who she was, piece by piece, from the fragments of her life as they drifted back to her. The result is this powerful exploration of psychosis and motherhood, at once intensely personal, yet holding within it a universal experience - of how we love, live and understand ourselves in relation to each other. 'A haunting, eloquent evocation of becoming a stranger to yourself' Observer