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Brought to you by Penguin. I started writing this book as an exclusively work memoir but the work and the personal kept overlapping. I don’t know if that’s because I’m a woman or a mother or both, or none of those reasons. I just know that for my story to be authentic and truthful, I...

In an idyllic Los Angeles neighborhood, where generations enjoy deep roots in old homes, the O’Rourke family fits right in. Miriam and Craig are both artists and their four children carry on the legacy. When their teenage son, Nick, is diagnosed with schizophrenia, a tumultuous decade ensues in which the family careens off the conventional course. Like the 10 Biblical plagues, they are hit by one catastrophe after another: violence, evictions, arrests, a suicide attempt, a near-drowning - even cancer and a brain tumor - play against the backdrop of a wild teenage bacchanal.

Annalisa Cuzzocrea ha seguito le tracce di Miriam Mafai grazie a una scatola blu avuta in custodia dalla figlia Sara. Qui ricompone il colore e l'atmosfera di una storia che parte dal dopoguerra e arriva ai giorni nostri. Miriam Mafai «fuggiva da tutto quello che temeva potesse fermarla, indurla alla rinuncia. Impedirle un'assoluta libertà».