Bestselling Novelist and Neuroscientist Lisa Genova Shares New Book on Bipolar Disorder

St. Louis County Library Foundation’s Gale Medical Arts Series is pleased to host bestselling novelist and neuroscientist Lisa Genova for a discussion and signing of her new novel, “More or Less Maddy.”

The event will take place on Friday, January 24 at 7:00 p.m. at the Clark Family Branch, 1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd, St. Louis MO 63131. Copies of Dr. Genova’s book will be available for purchase and signing from The Novel Neighbor.

With her signature “deep empathy and insight” (Booklist), Harvard-trained neuroscientist and New York Times bestselling author Lisa Genova has crafted another profoundly moving novel that makes complicated mental health issues accessible and human.

Destined to become a classic similar to Genova’s “Still Alice,” “More or Less Maddy” is a  breathless, riveting novel about a young woman diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

Maddy Banks is just like any other stressed-out freshman at NYU. Between schoolwork, exams, navigating life in the city, and a recent breakup, it’s normal to be feeling overwhelmed. It doesn’t help that she’s always felt like the odd one out in her picture-perfect Connecticut family. But Maddy’s latest low is devastatingly low, and she goes on an antidepressant. She begins to feel good, dazzling in fact, and she soon spirals high into a wild and terrifying mania that culminates in a diagnosis of bipolar disorder.

As she struggles to find her way in this new reality, navigating the complex effects bipolar has on her identity, her relationships, and her life dreams, Maddy will have to figure out how to manage being both too much and not enough.

Acclaimed as the Oliver Sacks of fiction and the Michael Crichton of brain science, Lisa Genova is the bestselling author of “Still Alice,” “Love Anthony,” and “Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting.” “Still Alice” was adapted into an Oscar–winning film starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, and Kristen Stewart. Lisa graduated valedictorian from Bates College with a degree in biopsychology and holds a PhD in neuroscience from Harvard University. Her TED talks on Alzheimer’s disease and memory have been viewed over 11 million times.

The Arthur Gale Medical Arts Lecture Series at St. Louis County Library was founded in 2015 by Dr. Arthur Gale with the purpose of increasing the public's knowledge and understanding of medicine and health care.

Program sites are accessible. With at least two weeks' notice, accommodations will be made for persons with disabilities. Call 314-994-3300 or contact us.