Books like Where Has Mommy Gone? by Cathy Glass

A San Francisco-based florist with a gift for interpreting flowers transforms the lives of those around her while confronting her own painful past.

From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Vividly, directly, with candor, wit, and simplicity, she takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called the "melancholy star of the imagination," and the other a desert of depression and, all too frequently, death. A moving and exhilarating memoir by a woman whose furious determination to learn the enemy, to use her gifts of intellect to make a difference, led her to become, by the time she was forty, a world authority on manic-depression, and whose work has helped save countless lives.

Kelly Corrigan’s memoir recounts her life as the sole daughter of businessman George Corrigan, intertwining her upbringing, family bonds, and the shared battle with cancer that tests and strengthens their relationship.