BookRiot: A Useful List of Books about Depression... (List by Josh Hanagarne)

And at last, something lively and irreverent.

From the Amazon page: With candor and humor, a manic-depressive Iranian-American Muslim woman chronicles her experiences with both clinical and cultural bipolarity.

As a friend of Melody’s, I can say that this description is insufficient.

She’s even more complicated than that blurb makes it sound like she is, and there’s no way to convey how intelligent she is outside of actually conversing with her. But this book is a great start.