Black Sails, White Rabbits

Hey all!

I've been asked to do a review on a book called "Black Sails White Rabbits; Cancer Was the Easy Part" by Keven A. Hall. I'm pretty excited because this means that my blog has reached a certain point where people are noticing it. I'm also excited because I've read up a bit on this book and the author and it, and he, seem awesome!

You can join my journey by getting this book and reading along with me! You can get it on Amazon here!

As a bit of a taste, the author's PR has sent me some stuff about him and his book to share with y'all. Hope you are all as excited to begin this journey as I am! I'll be starting it here pretty soon, so you probably have time to grab yourself a copy!

 

Award-winning Olympic and America’s Cup sailor Kevin A. Hall shares a stunningly candid chronicle of the thrilling highs and devastating lows of living and loving through the rough seas of bipolar disorder.

Young sailor and aspiring Olympic competitor Kevin A. Hall’s biggest dream was to raise a family. But within the space of three years, he was diagnosed with both testicular cancer and bipolar disorder, putting his family and Olympic dreams on hold. He soon found that surviving cancer was the easy part. Now a renowned Olympic and America’s Cup sailor with a wonderful wife and family, Hall shares a behind-the-scenes look at his struggles with mental illness in his riveting memoir.

Black Sails White Rabbits; Cancer Was the Easy Part

by Kevin A. Hall

CreateSpace (December 5, 2015)

People have some great things to say about it as well!

This is a compelling and extraordinary book about a life of extremes. Of mental pain and sporting triumph, of acute despair and a determination to achieve what others take for granted: a settled family life with a wife and children who love him. It's a jagged ride, funny, romantic and agonizing. Black Sails White Rabbits; is essential for what it says about mental illness and how crudely we still treat it. And like all the best art, its honesty is cathartic.

-- Philip Delves Broughton, New York Times bestselling author of Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School and The Art of the Sale

A devastatingly honest account of being bipolar, told with amazing insight, great feeling and unbelievable humor.

-- Kendall Hailey, author of The Day I Became an Autodidact

Kevin Hall has an extraordinary life and his book leads us through it in a bracingly honest and intimate way. Moving, sad and humorous, Black Sails White Rabbits; should be required reading for all mental health professionals but will be enjoyed by anyone interested in human struggle and perseverance; the book tackles questions of identity that confront us all.

-- Joel Gold, M.D. author of Suspicious Minds: How Culture Shapes Madness
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry NYU School of Medicine

This is simply the best book about competitive sailing I have ever read.

-- Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea and Why Read Moby-Dick

And just a little about the author...

Kevin A.  Hall is an Ivy League graduate of Brown University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and French literature. Despite being diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1989, he went on to become a world-champion Olympic sailor, as well as racing navigator for Emirates Team New Zealand in the 2007 America’s Cup match. A two-time testicular cancer survivor, Hall has spent a successful 25 years as a racing navigator, speed testing manager, and sailing performance and racing instruments expert.A brief version of his story was featured in Joel and Ian Gold’s book Suspicious Minds: How Culture Shapes Madness, as the only non-anonymous case study of a patient with Truman Show delusion. Hall currently lives in Auckland, New Zealand with his wife and their three children. www.kevinahall.com

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