This month WOVEN recommends the following books that cover issues related to mental illness, growing up in poverty, feeling alienated because one is “different” and how to understand genocide.
- American Psychosis: How the Federal Government Destroyed The Mental Illness Treatment System
By: Dr. Torrey
Oxford University Press/2014
- A Mother’s Reckoning Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
By: Sue Klebold, Introduction by: Andrew Solomon
Crown Publishers/New York 2016
- Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity
By: Andrew Solomon
Simon and Schuster/New York 2012
- The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
By: Jeff Hobbs
Scribner/New York and London 2014
- A Problem from Hell America and the Age of Genocide
By: Samantha Power
A New Republic Book/New York 2012