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Irritable Hearts by Mac McClelland

Irritable Hearts

A PTSD Love Story

by Mac McClelland

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  • Feb 2015, 320 pages
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Lani S. (Narberth, PA)

Disappointing
I really wanted to like this book but reviewing this book was a difficult task. On the positive side I admired the author's writing and her raw openness about her condition and its effect upon her life. However, I couldn't help but question her credibility. Being somewhat familiar with her work, I found it very hard to understand how she was dissociating and crying maniacally and at the same time going undercover to write a piece about working in an Amazon warehouse. In addition, she starts the book by vague comments about being traumatized by an event she observed without specifics to make us understand whatmore
Liz B. (Fairview, TX)

A Rambling Read
Irritable Hearts is a memoir that is lost in vague textbook talk. The first half is painfully slow going with a mostly unexplained major event that triggers the author's PTSD. The rambling tale seems disjointed and I found myself rereading pages constantly to try to stay on track. The book evolves into a sort of autobiographical textbook saga which I found uninteresting and consistently difficult to read. While I certainly empathize with the author's struggle to find peace with her diagnosis, I found this to be an underwhelming psychological case study.
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