![]() ![]() Written with wit and compassion, Sorrow and Bliss recounts Martha's attempt to sift through the debris of her life in order to gain some understanding of herself and to seek out the source of her damage. When he eventually leaves her, it isn't exactly a shock, but the event causes her to reflect on everything that has led up to this final blow. She rebuffs his incessant cheerfulness with small cruelties, pushing him further and further away. ![]() ![]() The pain is causing her to lash out at her husband, Patrick. Now she is middle-aged, and a resurgent wave of that same illness is threatening to wipe her out. When she was 17, "a little bomb went off" in her brain - a sudden, violent onset of mental illness that has characterized her life ever since. A sharply funny and poignant reflection on the experience of living with mental illness.Īt the opening of Meg Mason's Sorrow and Bliss, Martha's marriage is disintegrating. ![]()
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