Flight of an Icarus Girl: A Mother Investigates Mental Illness, Addiction, and the Epidemic of Despair

For fans of A Mother’s Reckoning and It’s OK that You’re Not OK comes a medical memoir that interrogates a daughter’s 2009 death in Minneapolis and reveals grief’s wisdom within other cultures.

When nurse practitioner Rachel Frazin lost her daughter to a polysubstance overdose in 2009, bereavement was only the beginning. She embarked on an unflinching search for answers, investigating the biological, psychological, and cultural factors that explained how a bright young woman could be so fata...