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02540aam a2200313 i 4500 001 24B847CCE1C911EE94D662C22BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240314010222 008 210211t20212020nyua e 000 0aeng d 020 $a 1501199994 020 $a 9781501199998 (paperback) 035 $a (OCoLC)1246538253 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d NJB $d SILO 082 04 $a 616.8980092 $2 23 100 1 $a Mathews, Dan, $e author. 245 10 $a Like crazy : $b life with my mother and her invisible friends / $c Dan Mathews. 264 1 $a New York : $b Atria Books, $c 2021. 300 $a 244 pages : $b illustrations (black and white) ; $c 22 cm 520 $a Dan Mathews knew that his witty, bawdy, unhinged mother, Perry, was unable to maintain her fierce independence at seventy-eight-so he flew her across the country to Virginia to live with him in an 1870 townhouse badly in need of repairs. But to Dan, a screwdriver is a cocktail not a tool, and he was soon overwhelmed with two fixer-uppers: the house and his mother. Unbowed, Dan and Perry built a rollicking life together fueled by costume parties, road trips, after-hours gatherings, and an unshakeable sense of humor as they faced down hurricanes, blizzards, and Perry's steady decline. They got by with the help of an ever-expanding circle of sidekicks-Dan's boyfriends (past and present), ex-cons, sailors, strippers, deaf hillbillies, evangelicals, and grumpy cats-while flipping the parent-child relationship on its head. But it wasn't until a kicking-and-screaming trip to the emergency room that Dan discovered the cause of his mother's unpredictable, often caustic behavior: Perry had lived her entire adult life as an undiagnosed schizophrenic. Irreverent and emotionally powerful, Like Crazy is a darkly comic tale about the perils and rewards of taking in a fragile parent without derailing your life in the process. A rare story about mental illness with an uplifting conclusion, it shows the remarkable growth that takes place when a wild child settles down to care for the wild woman who raised him. 541 $a Gift from the estate of John "Jake" A. Petsche. 600 10 $a Mathews, Dan. 600 10 $a Mathews, Perry Lawrence $x Mental health. 650 0 $a Schizophrenia $v Popular works. 650 0 $a Schizophrenics $x Family relationships. 650 0 $a Mothers and sons. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314025331.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=24B847CCE1C911EE94D662C22BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search