Discover Roll Back the World: A Sister’s Memoir, an autobiography about overcoming mental health challenges. Read this narrative of love and resilience.

“Kasdan’s memoir thoughtfully examines the lifelong impact of schizophrenia on the family—both the complicated dynamics around making meaning out of the loved one’s experience and …

Deborah Kasdan lived in the Midwest before moving to the Northeast, where she had a thirty-five-year career writing about business and technology. She has served on the board of directors …

The challenges her family faced in finding helpful treatment and community resources for her prompted their father to help start the National Alliance on Mental Illness, now a widely used …

Oct 17, 2023 · Intricate and affecting, Kasdan’s debut finds hope in the saddest of stories. Kasdan recounts her older sister’s harrowing struggle with mental illness in this debut memoir. When …

Oct 17, 2023 · Relating her older sister’s struggle, Kasdan excavates its connections to family history and provides a poignant look at a mid-century Jewish family, especially during WWII …

Aug 2, 2024 · Description Named one of Kirkus Reviews’ Best 100 Indie Books of 2023“Intricate and affecting, Kasdan’s debut finds hope in the saddest of stories.”