Author Archive: Gayle Brandeis
Ghost, Writing
I was a ghost when the ghost writing opportunity came along. My mother had taken her own life one week after I gave birth to my youngest child; a year and a half later, I was still a shadow of myself. I was milk and tears and lullaby; I was insomnia and stumble and mindless […]
When a Book Release is Truly a Release
I wasn’t sure I’d ever finish writing my memoir. The Art of Misdiagnosis is centered around my mother’s suicide; she took her own life exactly one week after I gave birth to my youngest child in 2009. I felt great urgency to try to make sense of that charged, disorienting time, but the story felt so […]
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