Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness

From Barnes & NobleJessica Close and her famed actress sister Glenn Close were born in elite Greenwich, Connecticut, but were whisked off when they were just youngsters to a Swiss school chosen by their physician father for its link to the cultish Moral Rearmament. Their journey didn't stop there: Before long, they were uprooted to war-ravaged Belgian Congo, where their dad served as the personal physician to the notorious dictator Mobutu. Not long after the family's return to America, it became clear that youthful Jessie was suffering from several emotional maladies, but it wasn't until she was in her fifties and after repeated marital disasters that she was diagnosed as bipolar. In this clarifying, ultimately heartening memoir, she writes about her life and how she has coped with its challenges.