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In 2002, at twenty-eight years old, David MacLean woke up in a foreign land with his memory wiped clean. No money. No passport. No identity. Taken to a mental hospital by the police, MacLean then started to hallucinate so severely he had to be tied down. Soon he could remember song lyrics and scenes from television shows, but not his family, his friends, or the woman he loved. All of these symptoms, it turned out, were the result of the commonly prescribed anti-malarial medication he was taking. Upon his return to the States, he struggled to piece together the fragments of his former life in a harrowing, absurd, and unforgettable journey back to himself. A deeply felt, closely researched, and intensely personal book, The Answer to the Riddle Is Me, drawn from MacLean's award-winning "This American Life" essay, confronts and celebrates the dark, mysterious depths of our psyches and the myriad ways we are all unknowable, especially to ourselves.Read More

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    In 2002 David MacLean woke up in a train station in Secunderabad India with no money no passport and no idea who he was. Taken to a local mental institution David was eventually diagnosed with amnesia caused by a bizarre reaction he had had to Lariam a common malaria medication. David had woken up to find he had forgotten his family he had forgotten his friends and he had forgotten the woman he loved. When he returned to the States he was a stranger in his own home. And as he slowly pieced together the fragments of his former life he found it forever changed. In The Answer to the Riddle is Me David tells the story of the horrifying sometimes comic and heart-rending year in which he lost his identity and reinvented himself. In so doing he explores the mysterious depths of our personal psyches - who are we without the benefit of memory and experience? What ultimately makes us knowable to ourselves?

  • Blackwell

    IMAGINE WAKING UP IN A TRAIN STATION IN INDIA WITH NO IDEA WHO YOU ARE OR HOW YOU GOT THERE - In 2002, at age twenty-eight, David MacLean woke up in a foreign land with his memory wiped clean. No money. No passport. No identity. In 2002...

  • Waterstones

    In 2002, David MacLean woke up in a train station in Secunderabad, India with no money, no passport, and no idea who he was.

  • 1907595163
  • 9781907595165
  • David Stuart MacLean
  • 5 June 2014
  • Short Books Ltd
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 256
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