Prozac Nation

Elizabeth Wurtzel's New York Times. best-selling memoir, with a new afterword "Sparkling, luminescent prose. A powerful portrait of one girl's journey through the purgatory of depression and back. " —New York Times. "A book that became a cultural touchstone. " —New Yorker. Elizabeth Wurtzel writes with her finger on the faint pulse of an overdiagnosed generation whose ruling icons are Kurt Cobain, Xanax, and pierced tongues. Her famous coming-of-age memoir of her bouts with depression and skirmishes with drugs, Prozac Nation. is a witty and sharp account of the psychopharmacology of an era, a landmark work of mental health literature for readers of Girl, Interrupted. and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. Raw, funny, and relentlessly honest, Wurtzel’s account defined depression for a generation. Unflinching Portrait of Depression:. Goes beyond diagnosis to explore the black waves, the blankness, and the sheer exhaustion of living with clinical depression. Life on Prozac:. A sharp, witty look at a life managed by Prozac, Lithium, and Xanax, and the search for a cure in a bottle. A Gen X Cultural Touchstone:. Set against a backdrop of Kurt Cobain and pierced tongues, this is the book that gave a voice to the overdiagnosed, alienated, and brilliantly alive generation of the 90s. Witty, Literary Prose:. For readers of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. and Girl, Interrupted. , this is a fiercely intelligent and darkly funny memoir that sparkles with luminescent prose.