This is the best mental health memoir I've ever read, and I've read a lot of them. It is sharp and witty, it is accurate and does not hold back, and it is, most of all, more than JUST a mental health memoir. It shows the perspective of an Iranian-American woman, which gives it a cultural competency piece missing from most contemporary memoirs. It talks about the research and the symptomology of bipolar disorder in a conversational, easy-to-digest fashion, mixing Moezzi's experience with the illness with her experience as an Iranian-American politically-engaged individual. It is brilliant and I cannot recommend it highly enough.