THIS BOOK WAS PHENOMENAL!!! I absolutely could not put it down. I read it in 5 days. This one is topping my favorites list. Seriously. What an interesting and deeply moving story. This woman's struggle to find some normalcy day to day with her disorder. My heart went out to her as I turned every page and I cried as her traumas and tragedies were finally brought to the surface. Wow. I would highly recommend this book! Holly Miller is a woman in her late twenties with multiple personalities or as Holly describes it, voices in her head and she calls them the Committee which consists of five distinctive personalities. As Holly tells her story, we come to know the different personalities that have virtually taken over her life. It is difficult for Holly to lead a normal existence but she does try to be as normal as she can be and gets a job as a voiceover actress for a popular show. Her relationships are strained, she does not get along with her mother and her father seems to be pretty much absent from her life. Holly's mother is more interested in appearances than being a mother to Holly and Holly's father left the family and pays the bills so that leaves her sister Sarah who is very supportive of Holly even though they live far apart. Holly has been seeing a psychiatrist, Milton for quite a few years and with his help and guidance Holly is able to come to terms with the traumatic events that caused the personalities to appear in the first place. The author weaves these different personalities into Holly's daily life and we see how Holly's mind has created these very different personalities to protect her and how she becomes cured of this disorder. I really enjoyed this book, serious, dark and funny at the same time but I think with lessons to be learned as to how mental abuse can affect children's young lives and how devasting it can be for a family.
What do You think about Sounds Like Crazy (2009)?
This is an amazing book. Funny at times and poignant at others! But well worth the read.
—rana
