Hurry Down Sunshine

At the age of 15 during one long and difficult summer Michael Greenberg’s daughter Sally was struck mad. Her visionary crack-up occurred on the streets of Greenwich Village and continued among other places in the lost-in-time world of a Manhattan psychiatric ward during New York City’s most sweltering months. Hurry Down Sunshine is Greenberg’s journey toward comprehending mental illness in his own family. With touching honesty and intimacy he reveals the effect of Sally’s mania on those closest to her including her easygoing brother her stalwart grandmother her new-age mother her artistic loving stepmother―and finally on himself. Unsentimental nuanced and deeply humane Hurry Down Sunshine is a transcendent memoir about mental illness and the restorative power of one father’s love for his daughter.