The beauty of lauren slaters prose is shocking, said newsday about welcome to my country, and now, in this powerful and provocative new book, slater brilliantly explores a mind, a body, and a life under. Read prozac diary by lauren slater available from rakuten kobo. He did not need to ask me many questions, as he had my entire chart before him, thick as an urban phone book. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading prozac diary. If it available for your country it will shown as book. Lauren slater is the author of welcome to my country, prozac diary, lying. When the author began taking prozac in 1988 she was 26 and had already struggled for over a decade with hospitalizations, suicide.
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