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Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother's Love

✍ Scribed by McDermott, Zack

Book ID: 109700437
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Weight: 1 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780316315111

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✦ Synopsis

The story of a young man fighting to recover from a devastating psychotic break and the mother who refuses to give up on him
Zack McDermott, a 26-year-old Brooklyn public defender, woke up one morning convinced he was being filmed, *Truman Show-*style, as part of an audition for a TV pilot. This was it - his big dreams were finally coming true. Every passerby was an actor; every car would magically stop for him; everything he saw was a cue from "The Producer" to help inspire the performance of a lifetime. After a manic spree around Manhattan, Zack, who is bipolar, was arrested on a subway platform and admitted to Bellevue Hospital.
So begins the story of Zack's freefall into psychosis and his desperate, poignant, often darkly funny struggle to claw his way back to sanity, regain his identity, and rebuild some semblance of a stable life. It's a journey that will take him from New York City back to his Kansas roots and to the one person who might be...

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