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Wednesday, December 20, 2017


Book Talk with Zack McDermott: "Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother's Love"

In his book "Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother's Love," released in September 2017, Zack McDermott describes how he experienced and recovered from his first psychotic breakdown while working as a public defender at the age of 26. At this talk at Yale Law School on January 22, 2018, he discussed and read from the book.