List the books (if any) you've read this year for pleasure. Choose one and in a sentence describe its impact on you.
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan
Into the Forest by Jean Hegland
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, and John Tiffany
The Family That Couldn’t Sleep: A Medical Mystery by D.T. Max
Survival of the Sickest: The Surprising Connections Between Disease and Longevity by Sharon Moalem
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Her: A Memoir by Christa Parravani
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Susannah Cahalan’s memoir, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, chronicles Cahalan’s personal struggle with mental illness and the ingenious doctor who diagnosed her mystery ailment, not only captivating me through its use of shocking, yet honest glimpses of Cahalan’s fragmented memory but also teaching me to dig deeper to find solutions to seemingly impossible problems and the extraordinary value of creative thinking and innovation.