Full name: Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See: A Novel

Author: Juliann Garey Year: 2012 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Psychology Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781616951290 161695129X

In her tour-de-force first novel, Juliann Garey takes us inside the restless mind, ravaged heart, and anguished soul of Greyson Todd--a successful Hollywood studio executive who leaves his wife and young daughter for a decade to travel the world, giving free rein to the bipolar disorder he's been forced to keep hidden for almost 20 years. The novel intricately weaves together three timelines: the story of Greyson's travels (Rome, Israel, Santiago, Thailand, Uganda); the progressive unraveling of his own father seen through Greyson's childhood eyes; and the intricacies and estrangements of his marriage. The entire narrative unfolds in the time it takes him undergo twelve 30-second electroshock treatments in a New York psychiatric ward. Similar books: Love in the Asylum by Lisa Carey What I Had Before I Had You by Sarah Cornwell Hollywood Kids by Jackie Collins Tinsel by William Goldman You or Someone Like You by Chandler Burr Zeroville by Steve Erickson Halfway House by Katharine Noel Ten Days in the Hills by Jane Smiley The Chrysanthemum Palace by Bruce Wagner I'm Losing You by Bruce Wagner Sufficient Grace by Darnell Arnoult The Storm at the Door by Stefan Merrill Block Hollywood Husbands by Jackie Collins The Ecstatic by Victor LaValle Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge by Jackie Collins The Snake Pit by Mary Jane Ward Trauma by Patrick McGrath Andrew's Brain by E. L. Doctorow More Than It Hurts You by Darin Strauss One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey