Don't Go Crazy Without Me - by Deborah A Lott (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p><strong><em>Don't Go Crazy Without Me</em> tells the tragicomic coming of age story of a girl who grew up under the magnetic spell of her outrageously eccentric father.</strong></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><em>Don't Go Crazy Without Me </em>tells the tragicomic coming of age story of a girl who grew up under the seductive sway of her outrageously eccentric father. He taught her how to have fun; he also taught her to fear food poisoning, other children's infectious diseases, and the contaminating propensities of the world at large. Alienated from her emotionally distant mother, the girl bonded closely with her father and his worldview. When he plunged from neurotic to full-blown psychotic, she nearly followed him. Sanity is not always a choice, but for the sixteen-year-old, decisions had to be made and lines drawn between reality and what her mother called her "overactive imagination." She would have to give up beliefs carried by the infectious agent of her father's love.</p> <p>Saving herself would require an unconventional reading of <em>Moby Dick</em>, sexual pleasure in the body that had confounded her, and entry into the larger world of political activism as a volunteer in Robert F. Kennedy's Presidential campaign. After attending his last stop at the Ambassador Hotel the night of his assassination, she would come to a new reckoning with loss and with engagement beyond the confines of her family. Ultimately, she would find a way to turn her grief into love.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Op-ed in the<em> Los Angeles Times: Op-Ed: I'm the daughter of a hypochondriac. I know that fear of COVID-19 won't make us safer.</em></p> <p>Deborah A. Lott's <em>Don't Go Crazy Without Me</em> is funny, horrifying, and heartbreaking--and often surprisingly, all three at once. It's an astonishingly vivid book, and to read it is to be caught up, just as the writer was, in an impossible, crazy, misfit family. Through grace and nerve and will, Deborah learns that you can't "screw nature," or "stop time," as her father tried to do, "but you could turn your grief into love." This writer's love for her deeply screwed-up family is unforgettable. As the best memoirs do, <em>Don't Go Crazy Without Me </em>makes this writer's story belong to all of us.<br /><strong>--Mark Doty, National Book Award Winner, author of the memoirs <em>Firebird</em>, <em> Dog Years</em>, <em> Heaven's Coast</em>, and multiple volumes of poetry.</strong></p> <p><em>Don't Go Crazy Without Me</em> is an extraordinary book. Deborah A. Lott writes about everything--parents, children, bodies, illness, sex, writing--with a voice that is utterly clear and beautiful and funny and original. This is a book written with honesty that will both break your heart and enlarge it.<br /><strong>--Karen E. Bender, National Book Award Finalist and author of <em>A Town of Empty Rooms, Refund, and Like Normal People.</em></strong></p> <p> Hilarious, devastating, and compassionate: Deborah A. Lott's <em>Don't Go Crazy Without Me</em> is written with a ferocious intelligence; it pulverizes memoir as we knew it. This is glorious work by a writer working at the height of her power.<br /><strong>--Paul Lisicky, author of <em>The Narrow Door</em> and <em>Lawnboy</em></strong></p> <p> Sentence by sentence, Deborah A. Lott is one of the finest writers I know. Her keen insights into the dynamics of her quirky, unforgettable family, and into family dynamics in general, make this book bound to be a classic.<br /><strong>--Hope Edelman, author of <em>Motherless Daughters</em></strong></p> <p>Brilliantly written with grace, generosity, and a highly refined sense of the absurd, <em>Don't Go Crazy Without Me</em> is the harrowing account of a chaotic, bewildering childhood. This reader was enthralled from the get-go, and Deborah A. Lott is now one of my favorite writers--I kiss the hem of her garment.<br /><strong>--Abigail Thomas, author of <em>Safekeeping</em>, <em>Three Dog Night</em>, and <em>What Comes Next and How to Like It</em></strong></p> <p>A vivid, compelling, and highly provocative read, <em>Don't Go Crazy Without Me</em> truly showcases the memoir as an art form. Dense scene after dense scene fill the pages. Lott's pacing of information and big reveals feel spot-on. Because of masterful characterization and tender insight--especially within the chapters where the adult narrative voice enters--I grew to love the characters, even as I feared for Lott and her father's increasingly erratic behavior.--Jody Keisner, <em>The Adroit Journal</em></p> <p>Any-one can have a pecu-liar child-hood, and many can even tell amus-ing sto-ries about it, but how many find their voic-es, and 'write' themselves? --Bettina Berch, <em>The Jewish Book Council</em></p> <p> Article in <em> https: //scoundreltime.com/my-cultural-appropriation/</em></p> <p><strong>INTERVIEWS AND FEATURES</strong><br> <li>Interviewed on <em>104.7 WONK-FM</em></li> <li>Reviewed in the <em>Jewish Journal</em> by Jonathan Kirsch</li> <li>Interview on Spirit of Story blog</li> <li>Interviewed on the <em>Kathryn Zox Radio Show</em> on <em>Voice of America</em></li> <li><em>The Nervous Breakdown</em> Self-Interview</li> <li>KATU AM - Northwest Radio</li> <li>Drinks with Tony</li></p> <li>LA Review of Books</li> <li> Featured in premium books supplement for the Southern California News Group, which ran in 11 different newspapers across Southern California </li> <li>Reviewed in Brevity</li> <li>Author featured in The Writing Disorder</li><br>
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