I want a book that goes into the general experience of women and mental illness from a female perspective, but that doesn't have the casual racism of The Bell Jar and is from a perspective outside of WASP suburbia. I would especially love the perspective of an immigrant woman.
by aimeur-arch
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I Never Promised You A Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg
*The Vegetarian* by Han Kang focuses on a woman with mental illness and how those around her react to and treat her. It’s set in South Korea (Kang is South Korean). It’s emotionally difficult, however.
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a classic short story / novella written from the perspective of a woman with postpartum depression descending into mental illness while she is undergoing “rest cure” in an attic (her husband, a doctor, prescribed that).
Weep for me Willow is a memoir of depression by a Ghanaian-American woman