Invisible Girl

I open my eyes The room is dark I hear yelling smashed plates and wish it was all a terrible dream Welcome to Mariel Hemingway s intimate diary of her years as a girl and teen In this moving honest young adult memoir actress and mental health icon Mariel Hemingway granddaughter of Ernest shares in candid detail the story of her troubled childhood in a famous family haunted by depression alcoholism mental illness and suicide Young readers who are sharing a similar painful childhood will see their lives and questions reflected on the pages of her diary What is it like to be a teen with depressed addicts for parents a mentally ill sister and a grandfather who killed himself In this moving compelling diary Mariel Hemingway writes as her teen self to share her pain heartache and coping strategies with young readers I open my eyes The room is dark I hear yelling smashed plates and wish it was all a terrible dream Welcome to Mariel Hemingway s intimate diary of her years as a girl and teen In this deeply moving searingly honest young adult memoir actress and mental health icon Mariel Hemingway shares in candid detail the story of her troubled childhood in a famous family haunted by depression alcoholism mental illness and suicide Born just a few months after her grandfather Ernest Hemingway shot himself Mariel s mission as a girl was to escape the desperate cycles of debilitating mental health that had plagued generations of her family In a voice that speaks to young readers everywhere she recounts her childhood growing up in a family tortured by alcoholism both parents depression her sister Margaux suicide her grandfather and four other members of her family schizophrenia her sister Muffet and cancer mother It was all the young Mariel could do to keep her head She reveals her painful struggle to stay sane as the youngest child in her family and how she coped with the chaos by becoming OCD and obsessive about her f