The Nonprofit Center
Jonathan Spack Community Center
89 South Street, Boston, MA 02111
Tickets are $65
7:45 - 9:30 a.m. Breakfast will be served.
Contact: conference@ppal.net, 617.542.7860
The Parent/Professional Advocacy League invites you and your peers working to support and advocate for children to a special discussion with acclaimed memoirist
Mimi Baird, author of
A mid-century doctor's raw, unvarnished account of his own descent into madness, and his daughter's attempt to piece his life back together and make sense of her own.
“An extraordinary Möbius strip of a book…Autobiography, biography, science, history and literature all in one, as instructive as any textbook and utterly impossible to put down…The text of Dr. Baird’s manuscript is haunting. The tone is one a suspense writer might struggle to sustain: The most unreliable of narrators, Dr. Baird is objective, charming, humorous, then suddenly just a little off, and then flat-out gone, leaving an irrational stranger in his place. The reader can almost watch the circuits in his brain surge and dim just as, Ms. Baird reports, the handwriting in the manuscript morphed from disciplined to disorderly and back again.”
—The New York Times
—The New York Times