A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention

✍ Scribed by Rebecca Schiller

• Publisher: The Experiment
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 308
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

As propulsive as Brain on Fire and as poetically candid as The Collected Schizophrenias, one woman’s quest for the truth of her neurodivergent mind

It should have been Rebecca Schiller’s dream come true: moving her young family to the English countryside to raise goats and coax their own fruit and vegetables from the land. But, as she writes: The summer of striding out toward a life of open fields and sacks of corn, I brought a confused black hole of something pernicious but not yet acknowledged along for the ride.

Rebecca’s health begins to crumble, with bewildering symptoms: frequent falls, uncontrollable rages, and mysterious lapses in memory. As she fights to be seen by a succession of specialists, her fledgling homestead—and her family—hang by increasingly tenuous threads. And when her diagnosis finally comes, it is utterly unexpected: severe ADHD.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Front flap
Title Page
Map
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
February 2020
Part One: Spring 2019
January: I FALL
February: BEGINNINGS
March: FRAG MENT ATION
April: BLACK HOLES
Part Two: Summer 2019
May: MAPMAKING
June: I DISSOLVE
July: A PURITAN LADY
August: EYE OPENING
Part Three: Autumn - Winter 2019
September: THE DEADENING CLOAK
October: RIOT/PROTEST
November: IDEAS DO NOT FALL FROM THE SKY
December: THE MIND SCRAMBLER
Part Four: The Next Season
2020
Author's Note
Acknowledgments
The Missing Women
The Missing Women: A Family Tree
About the Author
Back flap
Back cover