As the first Jordanian to come out publicly in Yonkers, NY, writer and mental health and LGBTQ advocate, David Rabadi learned early on in his life he couldn’t conform to the norms surrounding him, but it took some time before he spoke out about his personal truth. In his book, “How I Lost My Mind and Found Myself,” Rabadi chronicles his self-discovery with his sexual identity and mental illness. Between an exciting writing career and certain difficult psychotic episodes, Raba

Before Dr. Sybil Estess was a poet and memoirist, she was a little girl growing up in 1940s Mississippi, in a town called Hattiesburg. The book begins with her grandmother, living 70 miles away. She describes her grandmother and her generation in Jasper County’s living situation as ‘primitive,’ and compares the lives they lived to peasants of the Middle Ages. In her memoir, Dr. Estess describes, in gripping detail, the harsh reality of life in that place during that time. The