Books for Mental Health Awareness Month
Destigmatize mental illness and celebrate mental health with one of these books. Encompassing a broad range of genres, there is something here for everyone to enjoy.
LOCAL AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT:
This is One Way to Dance: Essays, by Sejal Shah
Sejal Shah's stories and essays have appeared in The Guardian, Brevity, Conjunctions, Guernica, the Kenyon Review Online, Literary Hub, Longreads, and The Rumpus. The recipient of a 2018 NYFA fellowship in fiction, Sejal recently completed a story collection and is at work on a memoir about mental health. She lives in Rochester, New York.
Witness to Two Worlds: A Memoir of Bipolar Disorder, Immigration, and Faith, by Giovanna Campomizzi May
Giovanna Campomizzi May is an Italian-American immigrant with bipolar disorder. She was a middle school science teacher for sixteen years, during which time she was honored in the Teacher Recognition Program by Canandaigua National Bank. She also served as the Religious Formation Coordinator with St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church. An excerpt from her memoir was published in As You Were, The Military Review. Giovanna has a master's degree in Education and lives in Rochester, NY with her husband. They have three kids and six grandchildren.
Recovery from Unusual Attitudes, by Sarah Collins
Sarah Collins is a copywriter and poet. Inspired by her personal journey with mental illness and radical conversion to Christianity, Recovery From Unusual Attitudes is Sarah’s debut poetry collection. She was born and raised in Central New York to Jamaican parents who emigrated to the United States in the early 1980s. Sarah studied Graphic Design at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She lives in the Greater Rochester Area with her husband Ed and their sweet, saucy house rabbits, Buddy and Birdie.
(This book cannot be returned.)
(This book cannot be returned.)
