WGBH Forum Network; Mark Vonnegut discusses Just Like Someone without Mental Illness
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Mark Vonnegut talks about his new memoir Just Like Someone without Mental Illness Only More So, a follow-up to the acclaimed The Eden Express.Here is Marks childhood spent as the son of a struggling writer in a house that eventually held seven children after his aunt and uncle died and left four orphans. And here is the world after Mark was released from a mental hospital to find his family forever altered. At the late age of twenty-eightand after nineteen rejectionsMark was accepted to Harvard Medical School, where he gained purpose, a life, and some control over his mental illness.
