{"product_id":"catching-an-orange-paperback","title":"Catching an Orange - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmy Crider\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThree days with a psychiatrist. Thirty years of letters. One remarkable memoir.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Once you begin reading Crider's utterly transfixing, vulnerable, and honest memoir, you won't be able to stop. Crider's stylish sentences investigate the space where brilliance and mental illness collide. Her story is heartbreaking and important.\" -- \u003cb\u003eAmanda Eyre Ward\u003c\/b\u003e, NYT-bestselling author of the Reese's Book Club pick, \u003ci\u003eThe Jetsetters\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Honest, gripping, heartbreaking.\" -- \u003cb\u003eJenny Lawson, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eFuriously Happy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"With piercing honesty and unexpected humor, Amy Crider reshapes the mental health memoir into something wholly original--intimate, fearless, and unforgettable.\" -- \u003cb\u003eJulie Ryan McGue\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eTwice a Daughter and Twice the Family.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Amy Crider proves an unforgettable companion for a daring journey -- through her own mental health, and a system that often fails her. \u003ci\u003eCatching an Orange \u003c\/i\u003etells a story of blurred lines, a mysterious connection, and an unlikely triumph.\" -- \u003cb\u003eRob Walker\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Noticing\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eCatching An Orange\u003c\/i\u003e is a vivid, absorbing, at times astonishing book. Startlingly honest and intimate, reading it feels like reading a stack of deeply moving personal letters found left behind on a Greyhound bus -- letters meant for someone else but entrancing, revealing and affecting nonetheless. This book is not just a love story; it's many love stories overlapping and intertwined, which is how real life often flows. It has broadened and deepened the way I think about mental health challenges, and will stay with me for a very long time.\" \u003cb\u003e-- Davy Rothbart\u003c\/b\u003e, contributor to NPR's \u003ci\u003eThis American Life\u003c\/i\u003e, creator of \u003ci\u003eFound Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and author of \u003ci\u003eMy Heart Is an Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Amy Crider's Catching an Orange is unflinching and tender in its depiction of mental illness and a difficult first marriage. Written as a letter, an elegy, and a heroine's journey, the book is elegant and unexpectedly inspiring.\" -- \u003cb\u003eRachel Swearingen\u003c\/b\u003e, author of How to Walk on Water and Other Stories \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Sometimes, almost miraculously, a brief encounter with the right person can have a lasting impact on our lives. \u003ci\u003eCatching an Orange\u003c\/i\u003e is Amy Crider's moving ode to a therapist she only knew for three days, as well as an absorbing chronicle of her battle with mental illness during the latter years of the twentieth century. Her story shows us that even now, psychiatry is no match for the wonders and sufferings of the all-too-human mind.\" -- \u003cb\u003eChristina Pugh\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Right Hand\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this unconventional memoir, author and playwright Amy Crider writes thirty years of letters to a psychiatrist who treated her for just three days--and never wrote back. What emerges is far more than a mental health narrative: it's a mystery story, a love letter to a man in a necktie with scientific formulas, and a meditation on the complex ways we construct our lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When Amy is hospitalized for a manic episode in 1993, she meets Dr. L., whose assertion after three days that he truly knows her--\"Yes, Amy, I do\"--becomes the foundation for decades of one-sided correspondence. Through these letters, Amy unravels the gothic complexities of her first marriage to a man who believed he could revolutionize physics with a free-energy generator, built boats that inevitably sank, and whose family sang hymns while she descended into psychosis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From vampire phlebotomists to sloshed psychiatrists, Crider's prose moves between philosophical revelation and dark comedy, examining how mental illness can sharpen perception even as it distorts reality. She unveils how a therapist can diagnose your mother with a personality disorder without meeting her, and uncovers why someone might stay married to a partner who insists on building boats instead of fixing the stove. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eCatching an Orange\u003c\/i\u003e defies memoir conventions with its epistolary structure and its refusal to provide easy resolution. Only after thirty years does Amy understand the true reason she never stopped writing. It's about the conversations we never finish, the people who change us in three days, and what it means to finally catch an orange.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 8.44 x 5.44 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 21, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48366738374905,"sku":"9781939430274","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/F7HHgM4Us39781939430274.webp?v=1778165885","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/catching-an-orange-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}