Roger Cohen, Author Of ’The Girl From Human Street’ : NPR

A Memoir Of A Family’s Diaspora, And A Mother’s Depression
▻http://www.npr.org/2015/01/18/377294529/a-memoir-of-a-familys-diaspora-and-a-mothers-depression

It was a box in the attic. And in it were my mother’s suicide notes. And my dad was a doctor, and there was a pretty detailed chronology of what had happened. And there was a family tree that he’d obviously made in a moment of desperation with black dots next to every family member who had suffered from manic depression. There were more relatives with black dots than without them.

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