"Linda Gravenson writes an exquisite, searingly honest, and nuanced memoir, vivid in every scene, revealing the author's inner life as she struggles to understand how she was caught in her mother's madness, her father's abandonment, and her husband's secret. She is a master at describing internal conflict. Frozen in the doorway of her life, she simultaneously feels compelled and reluctant to act but must park fear and rage in the arresting symptom...