Patient 12A A Memoir

So here I am, at a psychiatric hospital, looking for myself in a building I've never been to before. A few nights ago, I was ready to rid myself of myself. I still am, only, in a different way ...
Patient 12A is Lesedi Molefi's absorbing memoir, reflecting on his time spent in a psychiatric clinic in 2016. With vulnerability and candour, Lesedi reflects on the moments, large and small, that led him there. It is at once a personal history, an observation of how childhood experiences can have a profound effect on the adults we become, and a commentary on how mental illness remains a difficult conversation in black families. More than anything, in
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