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Author:
Catherine Cho
Publisher:
Henry Holt and Co.
Date:
August 4, 2020
Inferno is the memoir of a young mother who is separated from her newborn son and husband when she's involuntarily committed to a psychiatric ward in New Jersey after a harrowing bout of postpartum psychosis.
What The Reviewers Say
She writes powerfully about the disorienting shift in her sense of self.
One of the many fascinating things about this beautifully written book is that it asks us to consider what counts as normal behaviour and what doesn’t.
Inferno is a brilliantly frightening memoir about Cho’s two weeks on the psychiatric ward, elegantly interwoven with tales from her past.
In her in-laws’ home, under their loving but anxious gaze, Cho begins to sense something is not right.
