A Fish Growing Lungs: essays

by Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn

Book Overview

At age 18 Alysia Sawchyn was diagnosed with bipolar I. Seven years later she learned she had been misdiagnosed. A Fish Growing Lungs takes the form of linked essays that reflect on Sawchyn's diagnosis and its unraveling, the process of withdrawal and recovery, and the search for identity as she emerges from a difficult past into a cautiously hopeful present.

Sawchyn captures the precariousness of life under the watchful eye of doctors,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 194168114X
• ISBN13: 9781941681145
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Burrow Press
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"