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Finding Iris Chang
ByPublisher Description
Iris Chang's mysterious suicide in 2004, at age thirty-six, didn't seem to make any sense. She had more to live for than anyone, including fame, fortune, beauty, a husband, and a child. Some even wondered if the controversial
-bestselling author of
had been murdered.
Long-time friend Paula Kamen was among those left wondering what had gone so wrong. Seeking to reconcile the suicide with the image of Chang's "perfect" life, Kamen searched her own memory and scoured Chang's letters, diaries, and archival material to fill in the gaps of Chang's personal transformation—from awkward teen to homecoming princess in college, from "ex-shy person" to world-class speaker and international human rights pioneer—and her later decline into mental illness and paranoia. A literary investigation of an important writer's journey,
is a tribute to a lost heroine, a portrait of the real and vulnerable woman who inspired so many around the world.
"Probes the stigma of mental illness in the Asian-American community, Chang's sense of guilt over her son's autism, her veneer of perfection and the deterioration of her mental state." —
"A rewardingly complex portrait of a driven and troubled woman." —
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“I absolutely disliked this book.
First of all the writing was awful.
Second of all this writer who calls herself a “friend” is fake. It didn’t feel like i was reading from a friend’s perspective. It felt more of the perspective of a very jealous “friend” who is using Iris status to try to became like her (never).
I totally understand that Iris was probably not a perfect person. But it felt like this “friend” was describing Iris as the weirdest person on earth, but after she became famous she was her best friends. And know that she’s dead she feels “so” sorry.
I kinda think it’s very rude. Like she uses the fact that she was Iris “friend” to write this book and become famous. I don’t like to say this but it also almost felt like the way she is describing Iris as if that was the cause of her death. Very disrespectful.
I’m just really mad, disappointed and disgusted.”Start a Book Club
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