Between Sugar and Sundials: Keys To Understanding Mental Illness

Every day, millions of men, women, and children suffer under the affliction of depression and bipolar disorder. Many face the stark choice between life and death. They face the question: “Do I live and continue to suffer, or do I die and find peace?”

All too often—every 12.8 seconds—the tragic answer is suicide.

A collection of candid essays written in the years before and after his diagnosis, author D.R. Hucke’s “Between Sugar and Sundials” is a chronicle of one man’s battle with bi-polar disorder.

In prose that is unabashedly honest, sometimes poignant, and often witty, D.R. Hucke invites the reader to join him on a journey from the darkest days of depression to the light of a hopeful future.

Sometimes, the answer doesn’t need to be suicide.

 Sometimes, the answer is to live.