Book announcement

To download the book, This Hunger Is Secret: My Journeys Through Mental Illness and Wellness, click here.

This Hunger Is Secret: My Journeys Through Mental Illness and Wellness is my memoir about my mental illness experience.  I trace my early life growing up in Lexington, Massachusetts.  I talk about being part of a group of outcasts at Lexington High School, where our place of solace was an empty locker, where we left secret poems for each other.  Later, I attended a day treatment program, in a chapter called “At the Crossroads.”  My first hospitalization was in a community hospital in Vermont.  That chapter is called “A Forgotten Line.”  In my chapter, “Pro Re Nata, I talk about my incarceration at a state “hospital” in Massachusetts.  “Walking the Line is about a time that I was very ill in 1997, spending time at the famous McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts.  At the center of all this is the essay, “Hunger,” which describes my hunger for life, love, and God.  There is a Prologue and Epilogue, and many, many chapters in-between.

But the chapters are mixed up.  They are braided, interwoven mysteriously.  This book is about craving.  It’s about wanting something and not knowing what it is.  It’s about having a gnawing hunger that grows inside of you until it drives you insane.  It’s also about growing up, and about codependency and learning to leap out of these relationships and become yourself again.

This Hunger Is Secret: My Journey Through Mental Illness and Wellness was accepted for publication on May 28, 2010 by Chipmunkapublishing.  It is now available in e-book form, and there will be a version for Kindle as well.  Expect the paperback to come out late in 2011.

To download the e-book in .pdf form, click here.

You can read excerpts  at http://www.juliegreene.name.  You can listen to me read from the memoir here.

3AM by Lori Palmer, pictured on the cover of This Hunger Is Secret