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On Sale Now: Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg

September 8th, 2009

When she was fifteen, Sally Greenberg experienced a psychotic break and “was struck mad.”

In Hurry Down Sunshine, her father, Michael Greenberg, recounts the events in vivid detail—beginning with Sally’s visionary crack-up on the streets of Manhattan’s Greenwhich Village and continuing through her days in the otherworldly atmosphere of a psychiatric ward.

In her letter to readers of O, The Oprah Magazine, Oprah Winfrey said, “Hurry Down Sunshine is about tenacity and tenderness, feeling helpless but being present, about cracking up, then finding the wherewithal to glue the jagged piece of your mind back together again. But mostly, it’s about love.”

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