Meg kissinger biography

The breakdown of the nuclear family is a dominant theme in literature, particularly the novel and memoir, an obsession mirrored in the lurching changes since 1969 when America triumphantly landed men on the moon, followed by the long steady breakdown into today's swamp of disinformation, resurgent racism and mass gun violence.

With Congress paralyzed by Christian reactionaries, will our national madness ever hit bottom?

In While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence, Meg Kissinger, for many years a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigative journalist, probes the pain and shame underlying her 1960s upbringing as the middle of eight children in the comforts of suburban Chicago, anchored by the Catholic Church.

The narrative follows a tender reconstruction of the past, with bolts of terror as she explores why Nancy, the second oldest sister, and Danny, a younger b