this book will not save you

By: nat räum (author), 2024, Paperback

this book will not save you explores intersections of alcoholism, institutionalization, queerness, and borderline personality disorder. The book’s first section delves heavily into the experience of institutionalization, asking essential questions about healing and trauma. The second flashes back to the experience of alcoholism and untreated borderline personality disorder, providing context as to the events that led to the first section’s hospitalization. The third section, written from the present perspective, explores manifestations of queerness and joy as ongoing acts of healing.