Inferno
A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness
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Catherine Cho
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Catherine Cho
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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.
This program is read by the author.
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 - of how we love, live, and understand ourselves in relation to each other.
A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company
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Rose Napolitano is fighting with her husband, Luke, about prenatal vitamins. She promised she’d take them, but didn’t. He promised before they got married that he’d never want children, but now he’s changed his mind. Their marriage has come to rest on this one question: Can Rose find it in herself to become a mother? Rose is a successful professor and academic. She's never wanted to have a child. The fight ends, and with it their marriage.
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Holly Lawrence always wanted to be a spy, but the experience proved more dangerous than anything she imagined. Now, Holly lives under an assumed name, hiding from the man who nearly destroyed her life. She avoids relationships and trusts no one. But Holly’s new life begins to unravel when she encounters a young mother and her two-year-old child...a child who reminds her of a past she has tried hard to forget. This time, someone is spying on her, and Holly will need to decide how far she is willing to go to survive.
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Anju and Sudha formed an astounding, almost psychic connection during their childhood in India. When Anju invites Sudha, a single mother in Calcutta, to come live with her and her husband, Sunil, in California, Sudha foolishly accepts, knowing full well that Sunil has long desired her. As Sunil's attraction rises to the surface, the trio must struggle to make sense of the freedoms of America - and of the ties that bind them to India and to one another.
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In her younger years, Jillian Lauren was a college dropout, a drug addict, and an international concubine in the Prince of Brunei's harem, an experience she immortalized in her best-selling memoir, Some Girls. In her 30s, Jillian's most radical act is learning the steadying power of love when she and her rock star husband adopt an Ethiopian child with special needs.
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After years of struggling in a tumultuous marriage, writer Rebecca Woolf was finally ready to leave her husband. Two weeks after telling him she wanted a divorce, he was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. Four months later, at the age of forty-four, he died. In All of This, Woolf chronicles the months before her husband’s death—and her rebirth after he was gone. With rigorous honesty and incredible awareness, she reflects on the end of her marriage: how her husband’s illness finally gave her the space to make peace with his humanity and her own.
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excellentt!
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From the moment Martha and her husband, John, conceived their second child, all hell broke loose. They were a couple obsessed with success. After years of matching IQs and test scores with less driven peers, they had two Harvard degrees apiece and were gunning for more. But the dream had begun to disintegrate. Then, when their unborn son, Adam, was diagnosed with Down syndrome, doctors, advisers, and friends in the Harvard community warned them not to keep the baby.
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A spellbinding historical novel about a woman who befriends Ethel and Julius Rosenberg and is drawn into their world of intrigue, from the author of Margot. On June 19, 1953, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed for conspiring to commit espionage. The day Ethel was first arrested in 1950, she left her two young sons with a neighbor, and she never came home to them again. Brilliantly melding fact and fiction, Jillian Cantor reimagines the life of that neighbor and the lives of Ethel and Julius.
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Historical figures with minimal historical accurac
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Amazing!!
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not my cup of tea
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- Anonymous User
- 11-07-24
recommend
I read this with my book club. I thought this was really good, moving, and inspiring. It rang so authentic. I felt so much empathy for the author and her husband, and I felt awe in her courage to tell her story in the way she did. It is a story of extreme struggle and of resilience and love. Beautifully done and read, in my opinion.
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- SanFranciscoGal
- 10-05-23
Just listened a second time, so good
I think this book is outstanding and the writing feels even more powerful because the author is the narrator, too.
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- Shellim
- 12-12-23
Great story-which I had read the book.
I thought the story was very well written, and told such a good story of something so difficult that so many women struggle with. I wish though that I had read it as a book, instead of listened to it.The Author’s
Voice was flat, the entire story. For such an emotional topic, especially one she herself lived through, think it would have been better, even
More realistic, if there was more intonation and emotion shared within the words.
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- Megan Young
- 11-07-23
Harrowing and immersive
I can see how the narrator’s voice might make it hard for some listeners to stay with it, but I actually liked it — the lack of affect helped to put me in her perspective.. When she described her psychosis from her POV I felt I could actually see things her way and it made it even more harrowing. Her story mirrors that of some of my loved ones with bipolar disorder. It is at times heartbreaking and touching — her husband and family truly loves her. I’m glad it ends with her recovery. Beautifully written memoir.
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- Allison
- 02-29-24
Rare gem of a memoir
A rare, brave inside look at post partum psychosis. A helpful listen for people seeking to understand ppd or post partum psychosis. We need more people writing and discussing this. Many thanks to the author for sharing so candidly.
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- Becki Willis
- 04-19-22
Powerful, breathtaking, real
This is one of the best books I have read in a while. As a mother myself who has traveled my own postpartum journey, it was refreshing and powerful to see another mom’s real, honest story. To travel with her through her breaking and end with her finding herself again.
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- Cheryl Parkinson
- 06-02-24
Not for me
I appreciated the authors willingness to share her story. I found it hard to listen to often feeling confused by the fluidity of the imagined, the past and the present. it was a depressing book and for me I did not enjoy it. I do hope that others whom have perhaps experienced or known someone who has experienced post partum psychosis find hope and encouragement from this book.
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- irieta
- 11-14-21
A story that needs to be told
The story is compelling and honestly important. We do need so much improvement in how we respond to mental health issues that are specifically brought on by hormonal changes. It was at times difficult to stay engaged in the tale because the author/reader lacked much affect in her voice. But I do think the story is still an important and vivid tale of a harrowing event in this woman’s life and how she was able to overcome with the love and support of her husband and some very dedicated mental health professionals.
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