Bibliophobia

Sarah Chihaya always thought books could save her from suicide. Her perceptive debut memoir, Bibliophobia, examines why.

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Review of ‘Bibliophobia’

In February 2019, Sarah Chihaya wrote to a colleague, “So sorry, I’m going through a weird medical thing (nothing to worry about) and am going to try and take a few days completely off!” What she omitted was that she had just been released from the psychiatric unit of a New York City hospital. In…

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