Finding Dad, Paranoid Schizophrenia
An End to the Search
by Amanda LaPera
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Pub Date 16 Nov 2024 | Archive Date 21 Dec 2024
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Description
Living on the streets with untreated severe mental illness that developed at the age of fifty-three, Joseph was all but forgotten by the world. His daughter, Amanda, had searched for years and still hoped to find him--she'd even registered her father in the National Database of Missing Persons. Her sister, brother, and stepmother had all given up or moved on.
Ten years have passed when a call from the Missing Persons division alerts Amanda that her dad is alive, though his location is unknown. Is he back in Chicago or in one of the thirty countries he’d roamed as a self-proclaimed Prophet of God?
Amanda's mission is clear: find him. Her motivation: unconditional love. She navigates a maze of medical bureaucracy and a tangle of relationships to discover that what she's been searching for is not all that she has found.
Book club discussion questions included.
Advance Praise
“… compelling memoir especially highly recommended for readers facing their own impossible family journeys … replete with insights and progressive discoveries… will especially resonate with readers struggling with their own family member’s mental condition… Knowing her father’s fate is only half the battle.”
— D. Donovan, Sr. Reviewer, Midwest Book Review
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9780986247187 |
| PRICE | US$4.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 340 |
