The Answer to the Riddle Is Me: A Tale of Amnesia by David Stuart MacLean
Imagine waking up in a train station in India with no idea who you are or how you got there...
In 2002, at twenty-eight years old, David MacLean woke up in a foreign land with his memory wiped clean. No money. No passport. No identity.
Taken to a mental hospital by the police, MacLean then started to hallucinate so severely he had to be tied down. Soon he could remember song lyrics and scenes from television shows, but not his family, his friends, or the woman he loved. All of these symptoms, it turned out, were the result of the commonly prescribed antimalarial medication he was taking. Upon his return to the States, he struggled to piece together the fragments of his former life in a harrowing, absurd, and unforgettable journey back to himself.
A deeply felt, closely researched, and intensely personal book, The Answer to the Riddle Is Me, drawn from MacLean's award-winning 'This American Life' essay, confronts and celebrates the dark, mysterious depths of our psyches and the myriad ways we are all unknowable, especially to ourselves.
About the Author
David Stuart MacLean is a PEN/American Award-winning writer whose work has appeared in Ploughshares and on the radio program 'This American Life'. He has a PhD from the University of Houston and is a co-founder of the Poison Pen Reading Series. He lives in Chicago.
Format: Paperback | 304 pages
Dimensions (cm): 21.6 x 15.3 x 2.2 | 300g
Publication Date: 01 Sep 2014
Publisher: Short Books
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
Edition Number: 1
ISBN10: 1907595163
ISBN13: 9781907595165
Condition: Very Good
A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. Very minimal damage to the cover, including very minor (barely noticeable) scuff marks along the edges. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. Very minimal wear and tear.