While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of SilenceNew · Memoir, Nonfiction, Mental Health
While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
2023 · 320 pages · Nonfiction
46
New
★ 4.26 on Goodreads · 19K ratings
≈ 8 hours to read · about 2 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Goodreads Choice (memoir autobiography) finalist (2023). 4.26★ from 19K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
46Must-Read Score
- Critics10 out of 100 · counts 35%+4
- Readers64 out of 100 · counts 50%+36
- Buzz37 out of 100 · counts 15%+6
Where it ranks
- #117 of the 207 memoirs and biographies we rank
- #282 of the 730 new books we rank
- #667 of the 1,344 books we rank
Shortlisted
- Goodreads Choice (memoir autobiography) finalist (2023)
Reads as
True story, Thought-provoking, Moving
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