Mother Love: A Bipolar Odyssey ~ by: Andre North

A chance visit from Andre North’s mother and her high school sweetheart sends the young bipolar patient Andre North on rambling streak through the history of his bipolar illness in this autobiographical odyssey of mania and depression.

The first memories stirred up include Andre’s untimely birth to a drunk and a depressive to an audience of doctors who hardly seem to care that the young child is dying from oxygen deprivation. Then Andre grows up in the face of drunken…