I did not know what this was about beforehand, and learned only as I arrived there in the book halfway through reading. I believe that was they key to what made this as devastating as it was for me. I got to know the Leary's and followed them as they grew together as a family with complete ignorance, and then halfway through watched the life they built get progressively, utterly destroyed.

Even though the central plot of this book is nowhere near a secret or even intended to be so, I will still withhold from disclosing for the sake of offering the same opportunity. Regardless of knowing what you are getting into We Are Not Ourselves is a masterful piece, an in depth and excruciatingly intimate look into the subject at hand.

I didn't care for the characters at first, I found them to be exceptionally flawed individuals. Of course everyone is to some degree. Through seeing what they had to inevitably endure, all those flaws quickly became incredibly insignificant. No one deserves this.