The Outsider is an unsentimental yet profoundly moving look at
one family’s experience with mental illness. In 1978, Charles
Lachenmeyer was a happily married professor of sociology who lived
in the New York suburbs with his wife and nine-year-old son,
Nathaniel. But within a few short years, schizophrenia–a
devastating mental illness with no known cure–would cost him
everything: his sanity, his career, his family, even the roof over
his head. Upon learning of his father’s death in 1995, Nathaniel
set out to search for the truth behind his father’s haunted,
solitary existence. Rich in imagery and poignant symbolism, The
Outsider is a beautifully written memoir of a father’s struggle to
survive with dignity, and a son’s struggle to know the father he
lost to schizophrenia long before he finally lost him to
death.
The Outsider is a recipient of the Kenneth Johnson Memorial
Research Library Book Award and is the winner of the 2000 Bell of
Hope Award, presented annually by the Mental Health Association of
Philadelphia to honor “significant and far-reaching contributions
benefiting those facing the challenge of mental illness.”
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