The Answer to the Riddle Is Me A Memoir of Amnesia

David Stuart MacLean

eBook - 2014

"A mesmerizing, unsettling memoir about the ever-echoing nature of identity—written in vivid, blooming detail." —Gillian Flynn, best-selling author of Gone Girl On October 17, 2002, David MacLean "woke up" on a train platform in India with no idea who he was or why he was there. No money. No passport. No identity. Taken to a mental hospital by the police, MacLean then started to hallucinate so severely he had to be tied down. He could remember song lyrics, but not his family, his friends, or the woman he was told he loved. His illness, it turned out, was the result of the commonly prescribed antimalarial medication he had been taking. Upon his return to the United States, he struggled to piece together the fragment...s of his former life in a harrowing, absurd, and unforgettable journey back to himself. "[MacLean] is an exceedingly entertaining psychotic . . . [A] raw, honest and beautiful memoir."—New York... more