The Thin Ice of Reality

Libby Peyton’s memoir, The Thin Ice of Reality, takes the reader on a decades-long odyssey through schizophrenia— through the immediacy of a world of fear, odd sensations and altered thoughts. Libby guides us through hospitalizations, misdiagnoses, therapies and the secret life she maintained in the midst of her altered reality. Family support undergirds her enduring struggle to eke out a life in the face of conflicting, debilitating messages. The schizophrenia fights her for control of her mind and body.