General Information

Title:                  Inferno - A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness
Author:                 Catherine Cho
Read By:                Catherine Cho
Copyright:              August 4, 2020
Audiobook Copyright:    2020
Genre:                  Memoir/Medical
Publisher:              Macmillan Audio
Abridged:               No

File Information

Number of MP3s:         7
Total Duration:         6:31:31
Total MP3 Size:         179.27
Parity Archive:         No
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Book Description

Inferno is the riveting memoir of a young mother who is separated from
her newborn son and husband when she's involuntarily committed to a
psychiatric ward in New Jersey after a harrowing bout of postpartum
psychosis.

When Catherine Cho and her husband set off from London to introduce
their newborn son to family scattered across the United States, she
could not have imagined what lay in store. Before the trip's end, she
develops psychosis, a complete break from reality, which causes her
to lose all sense of time and place, including what is real and not
real. In desperation, her husband admits her to a nearby psychiatric
hospital, where she begins the hard work of rebuilding her identity.

In this unwaveringly honest, insightful, and often shocking memoir Catherine
reconstructs her sense of self, starting with her childhood as the daughter
of Korean immigrants, moving through a traumatic past relationship,
and on to the early years of her courtship with and marriage to her
husband, James. She masterfully interweaves these parts of her past
with a vivid, immediate recounting of the days she spent in the ward.-

The result is a powerful exploration of psychosis and motherhood, at
once intensely personal, yet holding within it a universal experience
û of how we love, live and understand ourselves in relation to each
other.